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1906 

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Chicago  Evening  Post 


LIBRARY  OF  THE 
UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 
AT  URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 

IN  MEMORY  OF 

STEWART  S.  HOWE 

JOURNALISM  CLASS  OF  1928 

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MARSHALL  FIELD 


AS  the  •wealthiest  dry  goods  merchant  in  the 
world  and  a  financial  factor  in  many  of  the 
leading  corporate  organizations  of  the  country  Mr. 
Field  in  his  personality  was  simplicity  itself.  He 
was  unostentatious,  public-spirited  with  modesty, 
retiring.  Forty -nine  years  a  resident  of  Chicago 
he  had  been  essentially  a  merchant,  devoting  his 
strength  and  brain  to  the  systematic  and  scientific 
building  up  of  great  establishments  of  trade.  In 
so  doing  he  had  at  the  same  time  given  of  his 
fortune  to  the  ethical  advancement  of  Chicago 
notably  his  gift  of  a  million  dollars  to  the  Field 
Columbian  Museum  and  of  nearly  half  a  million  in 
land  and  money  to  the  University  of  Chicago.  If 
Mr.  Field  had  expressed  himself  on  the  secret  of 
his  success  he  probably  would  have  said,  "system 
in  all  things." 


MARVIN  HUGHITT 


MR.  HUGHITT  bears  the  honorary  title  of 
"dean"  of  the  railway  presidents  of  the 
West.  From  the  day  he  mastered  telegraphy  by 
ear  in  New  York  state,  fifty  years  ago,  to  the 
present  time  he  has  been  an  active  railway  official 
occupying  all  the  offices  of  trainmaster,  assistant 
general  superintendent,  general  superintendent, 
general  manager,  vice-president  and  finally  presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  £$,  Northwestern  system  and 
representative  of  the  extensive  Vanderbilt  interests 
connected  therewith.  Practical  and  profitable 
railroading  always  has  been  Mr.  Hughitt's  forte 
even  in  the  days  of  the  civil  war  when  he  success- 
fully demonstrated  as  a  train  dispatcher  his  ability 
safely  and  expeditiously  to  care  for  Federal  troops. 
He  has  been  eighteen  years  the  head  of  the 
system  he  now  represents,  and  one  of  the  most 
honored  of  Chicago's  citizens. 


JOHN  J.  MITCHELL 


FROM  messenger  boy  to  president  of  the  bank 
in  which  he  once  served  as  an  employe  is 
the  career  of  Mr.  Mitchell.  His  financial  interests 
now  extend  not  only  to  all  parts  of  this  country 
but  to  the  centers  of  money  in  Europe  and  the 
Orient.  At  19  he  was  a  minor  employe  of  the 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  and  at  26  presi- 
dent of  the  bank.  His  varied  interests  now  extend 
to  insurance,  an  advisory  capacity  with  the  Audit 
company  of  New  York;  trustee  of  the  American 
Surety  company,  director  in  half  a  dozen  railway 
companies  and  in  several  electric  light  and  power 
companies,  and  a  power  in  half  a  score  of  other 
important  corporations.  Born  in  Illinois,  Mr. 
Mitchell  has  made  his  reputation  as  a  conservative 
financier  in  Chicago  and  won  the  additional  repu- 
tation of  being  an  accessible  and  fair-spoken  man 
of  business. 


CHARLES  H.  ALDRICH 


INDIANA  hails  Mr.  Aldrich  as  a  native  son,  but 
his  Alma  Mater  of  Michigan  claims  grateful 
recognition  of  him  as  well.  He  was  an  early 
student  at  Ann  Arbor  and  a  graduate  in  1875, 
receiving  later  (1893)  the  degree  of  A.  M.  His 
practice  of  the  law  began  in  Fort  Wayne  and  was 
extended  to  the  general  government  when  he 
became  solicitor-general  in  1892.  He  is  fond  of 
golf  at  Glen  View,  but  more  interested  in  intricate 
governmental  and  corporation  questions  involving 
vested  rights.  In  this  solving  of  complex  prob- 
lems he  has  won  an  enviable  reputation  through 
the  judicial  character  of  his  mind  and  his  extensive 
knowledge  of  the  law. 


FRANK  O.  LOWDEN 


MR.  LOWDEN  has  taken  step  by  step  his 
successes  in  life  through  his  own  energy. 
The  law  is  his  hobby.  He  was  valedictorian  of 
the  Iowa  State  University  when  he  was  graduated 
in  1885  and  valedictorian  on  his  graduation  from 
the  Union  College  of  Law  in  1887.  In  1898  he 
was  president  of  the  Law  Club  of  Chicago,  and  a 
year  later  professor  of  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity Law  School.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
American,  Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Bar  associa- 
tions and  a  trustee  of  Knox  college.  In  the  legal 
world  he  is  ranked  one  of  the  first  corporation 
lawyers  of  the  West,  having  the  advantage  of  long 
practical  experience  and  broad  and  persistent 
study.  In  the  campaign  of  1904  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Republican  national  committee  from  Illinois. 


JAMES  GAMBLE  ROGERS 


A  GRADUATE  from  the  West  Division  High 
school  in  1885  and  from  Yale  University  in 
1889,  Mr.  Rogers  began  the  study  of  architecture 
the  latter  year  and  practiced  on  his  own  account  in 
1892.  He  was  a  student  in  the  Ecole  des  Beaux 
Arts,  of  Paris,  tor  six  years,  becoming  architecte 
diplome  pare  goverment  Francais.  Since  his 
return  from  Paris  he  has  been  engaged  in  general 
architectural  practice  in  Chicago  and  has  designed 
structures  of  many  varied  types.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Beaux  Arts,  New  York,  and 
the  Societe  des  Architectes  Diplome,  of  France. 
Originality  always  has  characterized  his  designs 
with  a  happy  blending  of  the  practical  and  artistic. 


JAMES  H.  ECKELS 


FINANCE  is  the  bone  and  sinew  of  life  to  Mr. 
Eckels.  He  has  given  at  least  twenty-five 
years  of  his  busy  days  to  the  study  of  national 
finances  and  the  highest  arts  of  modern  banking 
as  exemplified  in  American  financial  institutions. 
The  confidence  reposed  in  Mr.  Eckels  when 
President  Cleveland  appointed  him  comptroller  of 
the  currency  in  1893— an  office  he  held  four  years 
has  been  reflected  by  his  rapid  advance  in  the 
banking  world  to  the  presidency  of  the  Commercial 
National  bank  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Eckels  is  fond  of 
music,  books,  the  charms  of  country  life,  and  the 
pleasures  of  the  family  circle.  He  is  one  of  the 
most  modest  of  Chicago's  influential  men. 


JOHN  C.  FETZER 


FROM  the  days  when  the  site  of  the  old 
Tremont  House  sold  for  a  pair  of  boots  to 
the  million  dollar  valuations  of  the  present  the 
importance  of  the  sound  judge  of  realty  values  has 
steadily  increased.  Mr.  Fetzer  has  won  his  high 
reputation  in  Chicago  financial  circles  through 
unerring  judgment  as  to  not  only  the  present  but 
the  prospective  future  worth  of  centrally  located 
property.  Born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1865,  in  1896 
he  took  charge  of  the  properties  of  the  McCormick 
estate  of  Chicago,  and  has  won  a  phenomenal 
success  with  them.  He  has  the  most  exclusive 
real  estate  clientele  in  the  city. 


ARTHUR  MEEKER 


MR.  MEEKER  is  the  general  manager  of 
Armour's  Stock  Yards  plant  and  president 
of  the  Omaha  Packing  company.  He  also  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Hammond  Packing  company, 
and  the  Hutchinson  Packing  company,  and  a 
director  of  Armour  C&  Co.,  and  of  the  National 
Packing  company.  Mr.  Meeker  has  made  the 
industrial  and  commercial  side  of  the  Armour 
business  a  life-long  study,  identifying  himself 
with  every  step  forward  of  the  firm.  When  free 
from  business  cares  he  has  the  Chicago,  Mer- 
chants, Washington  Park,  Caxton,  Saddle  and 
Cycle,  Onwentsia  and  Chicago  Golf  for  entertain- 
ment or  his  delightful  summer  home  which  he 
opens  each  summer  at  Beverly  Farms,  Massa- 
chusetts. 


N.  W.  HARRIS 


LIFE  insurance  first  inspired  Mr.  Harris  to  an 
active  financial  career.  At  eighteen  he  was 
a  solicitor  for  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society 
of  New  York  and  a  general  agent  for  the  same 
company  when  he  was  twenty.  As  early  as  1867 
he  organized  and  became  the  secretary  and  general 
manager  of  the  Union  Central  Life  Insurance  com- 
pany of  Cincinnati.  In  1883,  after  an  extensive 
journey  abroad,  he  organized  the  banking  house  of 
N.  W.  Harris  CSt,  Co.,  one  of  the  largest  in  the 
country  in  its  specialty  of  dealing  in  state,  county 
and  city  bonds.  Mr.  Harris  has  given  much  of  his 
life  as  a  layman  to  promoting  the  welfare  of  the 
Methodist  church,  with  which  he  is  conspicuously 
connected.  As  a  trustee  of  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity his  name  always  will  be  indelibly  inscribed 
on  the  tablets  bearing  the  names  of  the  men  who 
have  given  it  fame. 


EDWIN  L.  LOBDELL 


LOBDELL  was  born  in  Illinois  and  his 
financial  fame  has  been  won  within  its 
confines.  Coming  to  Chicago  in  1873  after  his 
education  was  completed  he  became  a  teller  in  the 
First  National  Bank  for  seven  years  and  then 
passed  to  the  Board  of  Trade  as  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Nash,  Wright  C&  Co.  Later  he  started  a 
banking  and  brokerage  business  of  his  own.  From 
this  grew  through  the  years  the  present  well  known 
firm  of  Edwin  L.  Lobdell  CS>  Co.  Aside  from  his 
many  business  responsibilities  Mr.  Lobdell  is 
conspicuous  in  club  life  and  its  social  features.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Union  League,  Athletic, 
Bankers,  Exmoor,  Midlothian  and  Twentieth 
Century.  Fond  of  athletics,  he  maintains  a 
delightful  summer  home  at  Highland  Park. 


FRANK  B.  TOBEY 


FAR  down  on  Cape  Cod,  at  Dennis,  Mr.  Tobey 
was  born,  worked  on  a  farm,  clerked  in  a 
country  store  and  postoffice,  became  identified 
with  the  anti-slavery  movement  and  wrote  the  call 
and  was  secretary  of  the  first  Republican  conven- 
tion held  in  his  native  town.  By  1857  he  was 
convinced  that  he  was  destined  to  be  a  furniture 
manufacturer  and  a  year  later  inaugurated  the 
business  in  Chicago  with  which  his  name  is  now 
inseparably  connected.  He  now  is  president  of 
the  Tobey  Furniture  company,  president  of  the 
Bureau  of  Justice,  director  and  treasurer  of  the 
Children's  Home  and  Aid  Society,  president  of  the 
Society  of  Ethical  Culture  and  president  of  the 
board  of  Trustees  of  Rush  Medical  college. 


ALFRED  L.  BAKER 


BANKING  propositions  and  stocks  and  bonds 
won  Mr.  Baker  from  a  long  practice  of  the- 
law.  Born  in  Massachusetts,  he  studied  law  in 
Boston  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1881  and 
practiced  at  Lynn  until  1886.  The  same  year  he 
removed  to  Chicago  and  became  the  senior  mem- 
ber of  Baker  C8k  Greeley  until  he  retired  to  engage 
in  the  banking  and  brokerage  business  and  became 
a  member  of  the  Chicago  Stock  Exchange,  the 
Chicago  Board  of  Trade  and  the  New  York  Stock 
Exchange.  He  displayed  such  ability  in  the  finan- 
cial world  that  he  became  president  of  the  Chicago 
Stock  Exchange  in  1898  and  later  president  of  the 
Merchants'  club,  with  which  he  has  been  promi- 
nently identified  ever  since.  In  movements  to 
improve  Chicago  he  has  been  a  conspicuous  factor 
during  the  last  seven  years. 


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EDWARD  B.  BUTLER 

HAVING  occupation  always  at  hand  has  been 
the  life-spirit  of  Mr.  Butler.  Since  his 
earliest  days  his  life  always  has  been  busy.  As 
early  as  1870  he  was  engaged  with  a  wholesale 
dry  goods  house  in  Boston,  a  training  which  led 
to  his  eventually  founding  with  his  brother, 
George  H.,  the  house  of  Butler  Brothers  at 
Boston.  Similar  houses  are  now  to  be  found  in 
Chicago,  St.  Louis  and  New  York.  They  repre- 
sent the  industry  of  a  merchant — a  title  Mr.  Butler 
is  proud  of.  During  the  World's  Fair  he  was 
chairman  of  the  ways  and  means  committee  and 
chairman  of  the  department  of  admissions  and 
collections.  The  Illinois  Manual  Training  School 
Farm  at  Glenwood,  Hull  House,  the  Chicago 
Orphan  Asylum,  Krring  Woman's  Refuge,  First 
State  Fawners'  Society,  Rockford  college  and 
Bureau  of  Associated  Charities  can  all  bear 
splendid  testimony  to  the  time  and  means  he  has 
given  to  their  advancement.  He  is  a  member  of 
six  clubs  and  fond  of  outdoor  life. 


WILLIAM  BEST 


MR.  BEST  was  born  in  the  quaint  old  town  of 
Canterbury,  England  and  educated  there  and 
in  the  Chicago  public  schools.  As  far  back  as  1857 
he  was  an  office  boy  for  John  C.  Partridge  £$,  Co., 
a  firm  in  which,  through  industry,  he  was  destined 
to  become  a  partner  in  a  few  years.  When 
Mr.  Partridge  died  he  reorganized  the  house  into 
the  firm  of  Best,  Russell  iS>  Co.,  and  now  known  as 
Best  £&,  Russell,  incorporated.  His  fellow  citizens 
frequently  have  honored  him  with  public  office  - 
South  Town  collector,  South  Park  commissioner, 
president  and  auditor  of  the  South  Park  board.  He 
is  a  high  degree  Mason,  a  trustee  of  the  Sixth 
Presbyterian  church  and  a  member  of  half  a  dozen 
of  the  leading  clubs. 


JACOB  R.  CUSTER 


HISTORIC  Valley  Forge  was  the  birthplace  of 
Mr.  Custer  and  his  college  life  began  at 
Washington  Hall,  Trappe,  Pa.,  and  was  extended 
to  Pennsylvania  College,  Gettysburg,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  as  an  A.  B.  In  1869  he  was 
graduated  from  the  Albany  (N.  Y.)  Law  School. 
In  the  legal  profession  Mr.  Custer's  career  has  been 
active  and  conspicuous.  He  is  a  master  of  chance- 
ry and  for  years  was  a  partner  with  the  late  William 
J.  Campbell.  For  eight  years  he  was  counsel  to 
the  sheriff  of  Cook  County  and  his  sound  judg- 
ment and  legal  acumen  were  frequently  called 
upon  to  decide  many  knotty  questions.  Mr.  Custer 
is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Calumet. 


THOMAS  E.  MITTEN 


BORN  and  educated  in  England  Mr.  Mitten 
came  to  the  United  States  in  1880  and  began 
his  railway  career  as  a  telegraph  operator  for  the 
Chicago  C&  Eastern  Illinois  railway.  In  his  service 
with  that  company  he  was  successively  agent, 
train  dispatcher,  trainmaster  and  adjuster  of  claims, 
so  that  he  acquired  a  practical  and  invaluable 
knowledge  of  all  important  transportation  ques- 
tions. To  add  to  his  varied  experiences  he  acted 
as  general  superintendent  of  a  Denver  railway, 
was  general  manager  of  the  Milwaukee  Street 
Railroad  company  and  general  superintendent  of 
the  International  Railway  company  of  Buffalo, 
advancing  in  1905  to  be  first  vice-president  of  the 
Chicago  City  Railway  company.  He  is  essentially 
a  transportation  expert. 


EDWIN  A.  POTTER 


R.  POTTER  was  born  in  the  historic 
town  of  Bath,  Me.  Until  he  was  thirty 
years  old  he  was  connected  with  his  father's  lum- 
ber and  ship-building  business  at  Bath,  but  in  1872 
he  established  in  Chicago  a  branch  of  the  china  and 
glassware  house  of  A.  French  &  Co.,  which  later 
was  incorporated  as  the  French  &  Potter  company, 
and  discontinued  in  1890.  In  1889  Mr.  Potter 
became  a  member  of  the  piano  house  of  Lyon, 
Potter  &  Co.,  which  later  retired  from  business  on 
the  advancement  of  Mr.  Potter  to  the  presidency 
of  the  American  Trust  and  Savings  bank.  Mr. 
Potter  has  been  president  of  the  Kenwood  club 
and  is  a  leading  financial  authority  on  La  Salle 
street. 


WILLIAM  L.  BROWN 


IN  IRON  ores  and  the  market  for  pig  iron  Mr. 
Brown  is  a  leader  of  the  highest  recognized 
authority.  In  1859  he  was  a  clerk  for  a  Board  of 
Trade  commission  house  and  between  1862  and 
1865  was  fighting  the  battles  of  the  Union  in  the 
Vicksburg  and  other  campaigns.  The  iron  busi- 
ness attracted  him  when  he  returned  from  the 
war,  and  by  1883  he  was  able  to  organize  the  firm 
of  Pickands,  Brown  £&  Co.,  one  of  the  largest  in 
the  United  States  in  the  iron  and  iron  ore  trade. 
The  Chicago  Shipbuilding  company  is  one  of  his 
children  and  he  is  president  of  the  American  Ship- 
building company.  Despite  his  intense  business 
occupation  and  the  many  varied  corporations  he 
represents  Mr.  Brown  has  a  host  of  clubs  which 
cordially  welcome  him  — the  Chicago,  Commercial, 
Caxton,  Tolleston,  Glen  View,  Evanston,  Evanston 
Country,  Castalia,  Fishing  and  Mid-Day. 


JOHN  S.  FIELD 


ICE  and  the  many  uses  to  which  it  can  be  put  al- 
ways has  been  the  conspicuous  part  of  the  in- 
dustry of  Mr.  Field.  He  is  president  of  the  Knicker- 
bocker Ice  company  and  of  the  Consumers  company. 
His  business  life  began  with  the  old  ice  firm  of 
Swett  &  Crouch,  Chicago,  as  a  solicitor.  When 
the  business  was  purchased  by  E.  A.  Shedd  C8. 
Co.,  in  1879  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  ad- 
vancing to  be  vice-president  and  general  manager 
when  it  was  incorporated  as  the  Knickerbocker 
Ice  company.  When  this  company  in  1898  absorb- 
ed thirty-five  of  the  local  ice  companies  he  be- 
came president.  Mr.  Field  has  been  a  trustee  of 
Plymouth  church  for  six  years  and  chairman  of  the 
board  three  years.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Glen- 
wood  school,  the  Charity  Hospital  and  of  the  first 
board  of  the  Chicago  Commons. 


CHARLES  F.  SPALDING 


AFTER  leaving  school  Mr.  Spalding  joined  his 
father  in  the  Spalding  Lumber  company, 
and  learned  the  practical  and  financial  side  of  the 
lumber  business  at  Cedar  River,  Michigan.  His 
advancement  was  rapid,  due  to  his  thorough 
application  to  the  work.  He  now  is  vice-president 
of  the  Spalding  Lumber  company,  a  director  in  the 
Hibernian  bank,  resident  vice-president  of  the 
American  Surety  company  and  a  director  in  the 
First  National  bank  of  Marinette.Wis.,  Menominee 
River  Lumber  company,  the  Commercial  National 
bank  of  Chicago  and  the  Commercial  bank  of  Iron 
Mountain,  Michigan.  Born  in  Chicago  Mr. 
Spalding  acquired  his  early  education  through  the 
Harvard  School  of  Chicago  and  Exeter  Academy. 


WALTER  S.  BOGLE 


IN  knowledge  of  the  coal  business  Mr.  Bogle  is  a 
leader.  As  a  graduate  of  the  Chicago  High  school 
in  1868  he  entered  his  father's  coal  business  and 
was  for  years  manager  of  the  Delaware  and 
Hudson  Canal  company.  He  now  is  president  of 
the  Crescent  Coal  C8t>  Mining  company,  of  the  W.  S. 
Bogle  Coal  CS,  Mining  company  and  a  director 
of  the  Fort  Dearborn  National  Bank.  For  three 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  West  Park  board, 
president  of  the  Iroquois  for  one  year  and  five 
years  vice-president.  In  public  affairs  he  always 
has  taken  a  prominent  part  figuring  in  many  of  the 
leading  municipal  enterprises  and  always  giving 
his  support  to  whatever  would  better  Chicago. 


W.  VERNON  BOOTH 


MR  BOOTH,  leaving  college,  entered  into  a 
business  his  father  established  half  a 
century  ago  and  now  the  largest  enterprise  of  its 
kind  in  the  world.  His  executive  ability  touches 
and  controls  great  fish  packing  houses  at  Baltimore, 
salmon  canneries  at  Astoria,  Oregon,  steamship 
lines,  innumerable  can  factories,  cold  storage  ware- 
houses, fishing  fleets,  and  the  like,  giving  employ- 
ment to  more  than  5,000  men.  Aside  from  the 
extensive  time  which  Mr.  Booth  gives  to  his  busi- 
ness he  is  a  hospitable  host,  one  of  the  active  and 
brilliant  figures  of  the  Onwentsia  and  Saddle  and 
Cycle  clubs,  of  the  Chicago  Yacht  club,  Athletic  and 
Chicago  Golf.  A  fine  horseman,  a  lover  of  fair 
sport,  he  easily  holds  one  of  the  highest  social  posi- 
tions in  the  city. 


EDWARD  P.  RUSSELL 


NEW  ENGLAND  gave  Mr.  Russell  to  the 
West.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts public  schools  but  came  West  to  win  his 
fortune  and  fame.  The  banking  and  brokerage 
business  received  his  favorable  attention  and  his 
natural  abilities  took  him  into  the  offices  of 
Edward  L.  Brewster  £8,  Co.,  in  1885.  In  the  end 
he  became  the  senior  member  of  Russell,  Brewster 
C8>  Co.  Following  the  line  of  his  business  activi- 
ties Mr.  Russell  extended  his  influence  to 
becoming  a  member  and  director  of  the  American 
and  British  Securities  company  of  London,  and  a 
member  of  the  Chicago  Stock  Exchange  and  the 
Chicago  Board  of  Trade.  In  club  life  he  enjoys 
the  hospitalities  of  the  Exmoor  and  Chicago,  at 
home,  and  of  the  Metropolitan,  in  New  York. 


JAMES  ELLIOTT  JENNINGS 


BORN  in  a  little  log  cabin  in  Arkansas  Mr. 
Jennings  has  made  his  way  upward  through 
the  persistency  and  intelligence  of  his  own  efforts 
He  is  an  enthusiastic  golfer  and  devotee  of  outdoor 
sports  and  exercises,  owning  a  110  acre  stock  farm 
and  country  home  at  Delavan,  Wisconsin  and 
belonging  to  the  Evanston  Country,  Evanston  Golf 
and  Glen  View  clubs.  While  attaining  success 
Mr.  Jennings'  occupations  have  been  multifarious. 
He  was  manager  of  the  Thayer  Transfer  company, 
of  Kansas  City,  a  salesman  of  Browning,  King  &  Co., 
with  Humphrey  &  Co.,  of  St.  Louis  and  then  with 
J.  Grafton  Parker  &  Co.,  in  the  real  estate  and 
renting  business.  Mr.  Jennings  in  the  growth  of 
his  business  abilities  has  given  his  energies  and 
thought  to  the  needs  of  the  small  investor;  how  to 
make  his  capital  profitable.  He  now  is  president 
of  the  Jennings  Real  Estate  Loan  company. 


HENRY  U.  MUDGE 


MR.  MUDGE  entered  the  railway  service  as  a 
water  boy  on  track  work  with  the  Santa 
Fe  Railway  system,  since  which  time  he  has  been 
a  telegraph  operator,  brakeman  and  baggageman, 
conductor  on  freight,  passenger  and  work  trains, 
train  dispatcher,  roadmaster,  trainmaster,  assist- 
ant superintendent,  superintendent  and  general 
superintendent,  general  manager  and  now  a  second 
vice-president — the  last  position  being  held  with 
the  Rock  Island  system.  Having  his  headquarters 
for  years  at  Topeka,  Mr.  Mudge  is  known  to  every 
farmer  and  cattleman,  every  mine  owner  and 
builder  of  western  towns  from  the  Kaw  river  to 
California.  He  made  himself  during  his  long  serv- 
ice with  the  Santa  Fe  one  of  the  most  popular 
and  practical  railway  men  in  the  West,  holding 
through  the  years  the  confidence  of  every  man 
who  knew  him. 


WILLIAM  W.  TRACY 


PARKS,  banking,  affairs  of  national  politics  and 
the  charms  of  a  fine  horse  serve  to  make  up 
the  daily  life  of  Mr.  Tracy,  who  is  one  of  the 
busiest  bankers  and  brokers  of  Chicago's  financial 
center.  As  a  graduate  from  two  eminent  Massa- 
chusetts institutions  of  learning,  in  1882  and  1886, 
Mr.  Tracy  located  at  Springfield,  111.,  as  a  messenger 
in  the  First  National  Bank,  of  which  he  consecu- 
tively became  corresponding  clerk,  teller,  assistant 
cashier  and  vice-president  and  of  which  he  now  is 
a  director.  His  banking  business  in  Chicago  began 
in  1895.  He  served  five  years  in  the  Fifth  Regi- 
ment, I.  N.  G.,  the  governor's  guard,  has  been 
president  of  the  National  Republican  League  and  of 
the  Republican  League  of  Illinois,  president  of  the 
Lincoln  Park  board,  and  one  of  the  leading  club 
members  of  the  city,  especially  in  Onwentsia. 


ALONZO  C.  MATHER 


TNVENTOR  and  manufacturer  are  the  titles 
JL  bestowed  upon  Mr.  Mather.  After  leaving  school 
he  was  first  employed  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  then  at 
Quincy,  111.,  and  in  1873  chose  Chicago  as  his  home. 
He  is  the  patentee  of  many  inventions,  including 
a  glove  fastener,  of  which  large  quantities  have  been 
sold.  His  leading  inventions  are  the  Mather 
automatic  car  coupler,  and  a  car  for  cattle  trans- 
portation, which  greatly  adds  to  the  comfort  and 
condition  of  the  cattle  transported.  For  this  he 
received  a  gold  medal  from  the  American  Humane 
association.  He  is  now  president  of  the  Mather 
Humane  Stock  Transportation  company  and  of  the 
Mather  Stock  Car  company.  In  his  early  life  he 
was  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  First  Regi- 
ment, I.  N.  G. 


JOHN  M.  WHITMAN 

MR.  WHITMAN  is  of  Scotch  descent.  He 
has  been  since  1899  the  4th  vice-president 
of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  railway.  His  first 
work  in  the  railway  business  was  as  a  rodman  in 
the  engineering  department  of  the  Illinois  Central 
road.  Between  1858  and  1860  he  was  engaged  as 
a  leveler  in  the  work  of  enlarging  the  Erie  canal, 
going  from  that  to  the  construction  of  railways  in 
Georgia.  When  the  Union  Stock  Yards  of  Chicago 
were  designed  in  1867  he  was  in  charge  of  the  con- 
struction work  and  also  in  control  of  work  at  the 
same  period  for  the  deepening  of  the  Illinois  and 
Michigan  canal.  As  early  as  1883  he  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  Iowa  division  of  the  Northwestern 
and  subsequently  connected  with  the  Chicago,  St. 
Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Omaha  system  as  general 
superintendent.  There  hardly  is  a  phase  of  prac- 
tical railway  life  that  Mr.  Whitman  has  not  ex- 
perienced. 


SIDNEY  C.  LOVE 


BISHOP  WHIPPLE,  one  of  the  pioneer 
prelates  of  Minnesota,  and  the  head  of  the 
Shattuck  school,  was  the  educator  of  Mr.  Love, 
who  first  entered  into  business  in  a  bank  of  Keokuk, 
Iowa,  and  left  that  to  join  the  South  Side  Elevated 
Railroad  Company  of  Chicago.  The  banking  and 
brokerage  firm  of  John  C.  King  C&  Company  was 
organized  by  him  in  1897,  but  from  which  he 
retired  in  1900  to  form  the  present  firm  of  Sidney 
C.  Love  CS,  Co.,  with  offices  in  this  city,  New  York 
and  St.  Louis.  'While  Mr.  Love  gives  close 
attention  to  business  he  is  fond  of  the  outdoor  life 
and  the  pleasures  of  golf  and  the  handling  of  spirit- 
ed horses.  He  is  known  as  one  of  the  first  drivers 
and  equestrians  of  the  North  Shore. 


THOMAS  CRATTY 


AS  A  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Cratty 
Brothers,  Jarvis  C8!,  Latimer,  Mr.  Cratty 
has  given  long  attention  to  technical  law.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  legal  profession  at  Peoria  as 
early  as  1869  and  continued  practice  there  with  his 
brother,  Josiah,  until  1884,  when  they  removed  to 
Chicago  and  established  themselves  as  authorities 
on  corporation  law.  In  this  particular  branch  he 
has  distinguished  himself  as  an  authority  on  the 
particular  questions  of  the  organization  of  cor- 
porations, the  laws  of  the  various  states  regarding 
this,  the  rights  of  corporations  and  individuals, 
and  the  relations  between  corporations  and  the 
public  on  a  legal  basis.  In  this  class  of  study  and 
practice  he  has  won  a  high  reputation. 


SILAS  H.  STRAWN 


MR.  STRAWN  graduated  from  the  Ottawa 
High  school  in  1885,  but  before  beginning 
the  active  practice  of  law  in  which  he  has  won  his 
success,  taught  school  for  two  years.  After  read- 
ing law  in  the  office  of  Bull  £&  Strawn  at  Ottawa 
he  came  to  Chicago  in  1891  and  attended  the 
University  Extension  lectures  of  the  University  of 
Chicago  for  two  years.  Admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1889  he  first  practiced  at  Ottawa  and  then  con- 
nected himself  with  Weigley,  Bulkley  £&  Gray,  of 
Chicago,  and  Iat2r  with  'Winston  C&  Meagher,  in 
the  latter  firm  eventually  becoming  a  partner.  He 
is  now  of  Winston,  Payne  C®>  Strawn,  a  director 
in  the  Chicago  Terminal  railway  company  and 
counsel  of  the  East  Chicago  company.  He  is  one 
of  the  directors  of  the  Midlothian  Golf  club. 


AMBROSE  L.  THOMAS 


TN  the  world  of  making  a  thing  known  through 
-L  a  telling  advertisement  Mr.  Thomas  has  made 
a  reputation  second  to  none.  He  is  president  and 
director  of  the  Lord  C$t>  Thomas  company,  also  of 
the  Sterling  Remedy  company,  vice-president  and 
director  of  the  Orangeine  Chemical  company,  and 
director  of  the  Metropolitan  Trust  &  Savings  Bank 
and  the  Indiana  Mineral  Springs  company.  Mr. 
Thomas  believes  in  publicity  for  every  meritor- 
ious public  ware.  The  science  of  advertising  and 
the  business  mechanism  of  a  successful  advertis- 
ing house  have  been  his  favorite  studies  for  years. 
Through  them  he  has  risen  to  the  top-notch  of 
success.  Mr.  Thomas  has  shunned  public  life 
although  he  made  an  efficient  and  conscientious 
south  town  collector  at  a  time  when  a  high  sense 
of  honor  counted  for  much  in  that  office. 


WILLIAM  H.  LAKE 


MR.  LAKE  was  sixteen  years  old  when  he 
entered  the  grain  business  in  Chicago  with 
the  old  firm  of  Dwight  CS!,  Gillett.  For  eight  years 
he  was  with  Bartlett,  Frazier  £8,  Co.,  and  later 
organized  the  firm  of  Lake  CS,  Leask.  He  is  now 
the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  W.  H.  Lake  £&> 
Co.,  and  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade, 
Chicago  Stock  Exchange,  Milwaukee  Chamber  of 
Commerce  and  New  York  Produce  Exchange.  In 
club  life  he  connects  with  the  Washington  Park, 
the  Chicago  Athletic,  the  Chicago  Yacht  and  the 
Glen  View,  being  an  enthusiastic  golfer.  On  the 
board  he  is  known  as  one  of  the  modern,  pro- 
gressive dealers  and  traders  of  high  principles. 


JOHN  S.  MILLER 


FEW  who  know  him  today  would  suspect  that 
Mr.  Miller  once  was  an  able  teacher  of 
mathematics  and  Latin  and  Greek  in  the  old  and 
famous  St.  Lawrence  University.  Even  after  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Ogdensburg,  New 
York,  in  1870,  his  educational  work  continued.  He 
did  not  relinquish  it  until  1874,  when  he  removed 
to  Chicago  and  began  the  legal  career  which  has 
placed  him  in  the  foremost  rank  of  the  corporation 
lawyers  of  the  country.  While  corporation  coun- 
sel of  Chicago  (1891-93)  Mr.  Miller  argued  the  case 
of  the  city  against  the  Illinois  Central  railway  in 
the  Lake  Front  Park  litigation  and  won.  As  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education  he  was  con- 
spicuous for  his  advocacy  of  methods  of  sim- 
plicity. He  has  been  president  of  the  Union 
League  club  and  is  one  of  the  leaders  in  all  civic 
improvement  work. 


ALBERT  J.  EARLING 


IN  1906,  Mr.  Earling  will  have  been  forty  years 
in  continuous  service  with  the  Chicago,  Mil- 
waukee CSt,  St.  Paul  railway,  a  most  remarkable 
record.  Born  in  Wisconsin  and  receiving  a  com- 
mon school  education,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
road  in  1866  and  has  been  successively  five  years  a 
telegraph  operator,  five  years  a  train  dispatcher, 
four  years  assistant  superintendent,  two  years  div- 
ision superintendent,  four  years  assistant  general 
manager,  two  years  general  superintendent,  six 
years  general  manager,  three  years  second  vice- 
president  and  general  manager,  and  six  years  presi- 
dent. His  name  is  synonymous  with  the  growth 
and  development  of  the  Milwaukee  system  of 
which  he  has  become  an  almost  inseparable  part. 


E.  J.  BRUNDAGE 


WHILE  employed  in  railway  offices  in  Detroit 
and  Chicago  during  his  youth  Mr.  Brundage 
studied  law  in  leisure  moments,  being  admitted  to 
the  Illinois  bar  in  1892  and  graduating  from  the 
Chicago  College  of  Law  with  an  LL.  B.  Born  in 
New  York  Mr.  Brundage  chose  Chicago  for  his 
home,  became  twice  a  member  of  the  state  legis- 
lature and  in  1904  was  elected  president  of  the 
county  board.  He  has  been  one  of  the  inspiring 
factors  of  the  new  county  building,  which  he  prom- 
ises shall  be  not  only  a  work  of  art  but  one  of  the 
most  practical  public  buildings  ever  erected  in  the 
West.  As  a  public  official  he  is  known  as  an 
untiring  worker  a  man  of  broad  ideas  and  extreme 
energy. 


JOHN  A.  DRAKE 


LOVE  of  finely  bred  horses,  fondness  for  out- 
door sports  and  great  capacity  for  taking  on 
important  business  enterprises  have  marked  the 
interesting  life  of  Mr.  Drake.  While  the  greater 
portion  of  his  time  is  now  given  to  his  business 
enterprises  in  New  York,  his  name  long  has  been 
intimately  associated  with  the  life  of  Washington 
Park  club,  Chicago,  and  the  promotion  of  legiti- 
mate and  healthful  gentleman's  sport.  Mr.  Drake 
takes  to  golf  with  great  zest  and  is  an  extensive 
traveler.  Retiring  from  business  some  years  ago 
he  took  to  racing  through  sheer  admiration  for  a 
spirited  horse.  As  he  has  put  it  himself:  "I  never 
had  any  idea  of  making  any  money  out  of  it,  and 
no  man  who  goes  into  racing  for  the  sport  of  it 
can  make  any  money  out  of  it." 


JOSEPH  H.  DEFREES 


IN  the  development  and  application  of  corporation 
law  Mr.  Defrees  has  given  the  best  of  three 
decades  or  ever  since  he  left  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity. He  was  born  at  Goshen,  Indiana,  and 
practiced  at  the  Indiana  bar  until  1888  when  he 
came  to  Chicago  and  began  legal  life  here  in  the 
firm  of  Shuman  £&,  Defrees;  later  of  Aldrich,  Payne 
£&  Defrees  and  now  Defrees,  Brace  &  Ritter.  Mr. 
Defrees  is  a  director  of  Kelly,  Maus  C&  Co.,  the  A. 
H.  Pierce  Manufacturing  company,  the  Chicago 
Car  Seal  company ;  president  of  the  Windermere 
company,  and  vice-president  of  the  Western  Con- 
solidated Granite  company.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Bar  Association  and  of  the  Chicago 
Law  club  and  an  active  Republican. 


ERNEST  W.  HEATH 


MONROE  Heath,  one  of  the  early  Mayors  of 
Chicago,  was  the  father  of  Mr.  Heath.  The 
former  in  1851  had  organized  the  Heath  ca,  Mil- 
ligan  company,  paints  and  oils,  and  to  this  the  son 
went  in  1874  becoming  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Heath  and  Milligan  Manufacturing  company 
when  it  was  incorporated  in  1881  and  president 
and  manager  of  the  company  in  1894.  Mr.  Heath's 
business  and  social  career  always  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  growth  of  Chicago.  He  was  born 
and  educated  here,  his  ambitions  have  been  grati- 
fied here,  and  he  has  risen  to  the  eminence  of 
being  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  conservative 
figures  in  the  city's  commercial  world. 


JOSEPH  HARRIS 


IN  THE  future  of  the  automatic  telephone  Mr. 
Harris  has  persistently  pinned  his  faith. 
When  it  was  introduced  into  the  departments  of 
the  government  during  the  Spanish-American  war 
of  1898  he  said  it  had  come  to  stay— the  telephone 
that  does  away  with  the  "hello  girl."  When  the 
imperial  government  of  Germany  adopted  it  for 
use  in  Berlin  and  gave  its  orders  to  Chicago  man- 
ufacturers for  the  automatic  switchboards,  Mr. 
Harris  repeated  his  assertion.  'When  he  saw 
10,000  of  these  automatic  telephones  in  practical 
use  in  Chicago,  he  declared  that  all  his  faith  and 
prophecies  of  the  past  had  come  true.  Mr.  Harris 
was  born  and  educated  in  Chicago  and  for  years 
was  a  salesman  for  a  clothing  house.  When  he 
became  interested  in  the  automatic  telephone, 
Fortune  smiled  upon  him. 


JOHN  M.  EWEN 


COOK  county's  new,  practical  and  artistic 
public  offices  will  be  constructed  under  the 
supervision  of  Mr.  Ewen  who  is  an  engineer  and 
builder  of  national  note.  Receiving  his  education 
at  Russell's  Military  Academy,  New  Haven,  and 
Stevens  Institute  of  Technology,  he  was  with  the 
J.  B.  and  J.  M.  Cornell  Iron  Works  for  three  years, 
•with  W.  L.  B.  Jenney  for  one  year;  four  years 
engineer  and  general  manager  with  Burnham  C& 
Root  and  ten  years  (four  in  London)  with  the 
George  A.  Fuller  company  on  building  construc- 
tion as  vice-president,  general  manager  and 
western  contracting  agent.  Since  1902  he  has  been 
the  vice-president  and  western  representative 
of  the  Thorn pson-Starrett  company,  of  New 
York,  building  contractors.  He  has  been  actively 
identified  with  the  erection  of  many  of  the  high 
office  buildings  of  the  United  States. 


CHARLES  W.  GILLETT 


SEEING  business  life  first  as  a  clerk  and 
traveling  salesman  Mr.  Gillett  became  an 
advertising  manager  and  two  years  later  formed 
the  Champion  Iron  and  Steel  Company,  of 
Muskegon,  Michigan,  which  was  subsequently  sold 
to  the  United  States  Steel  corporation.  Since  that 
time  Mr.  Gillett  has  given  his  virile  energies  to  the 
stock  market  and  the  promotion  of  the  extensive 
interests  of  the  E.  W.  Gillett  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  baking  powders  and  extracts.  'While 
rising  into  prominence  in  the  business  world  he 
was  an  active  member  of  the  First  Regiment, 
Illinois  National  Guard,  doing  much  to  give  that 
regiment  the  enviable  reputation  it  now  bears.  He 
is  prominently  connected  with  the  Union  League 
and  Washington  Park  clubs  and  has  his  residence 
in  the  beautiful  Lake  Forest  region. 


CHARLES  W.  GILLETT 


SEEING  business  life  first  as  a  clerk  and 
traveling  salesman  Mr.  Gillett  became  an 
advertising  manager  and  two  years  later  formed 
the  Champion  Iron  and  Steel  Company,  of 
Muskegon,  Michigan,  which  •was  subsequently  sold 
to  the  United  States  Steel  corporation.  Since  that 
time  Mr.  Gillett  has  given  his  virile  energies  to  the 
stock  market  and  the  promotion  of  the  extensive 
interests  of  the  E.  W.  Gillett  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  baking  powders  and  extracts.  While 
rising  into  prominence  in  the  business  world  he 
was  an  active  member  of  the  First  Regiment, 
Illinois  National  Guard,  doing  much  to  give  that 
regiment  the  enviable  reputation  it  now  bears.  He 
is  prominently  connected  with  the  Union  League 
and  Washington  Park  clubs  and  has  his  residence 
in  the  beautiful  Lake  Forest  region. 


ALBERT  B.  DICK 


AFTER  a  long  experience  with  manufacturing 
enterprises  and  the  lumber  trade,  Mr.  Dick, 
as  president  of  the  company  which  he  represents, 
has  given  his  entire  attention  to  the  manufacture 
of  the  Edison  mimeograph  and  Edison  supplies. 
Receiving  his  education  in  the  Galesburg  public 
school  he  plunged  actively  into  business  with  the 
Brown  agricultural  implement  manufacturers  for  a 
number  of  years  and  then  with  the  Deere  £& 
Mansur  company  and  the  Moline  Lumber  company. 
As  far  back  as  1883  he  organized  and  incorporated 
the  A.  B.  Dick  company,  dealers  in  lumber,  and 
manufacturers,  and  became  a  prominent  figure 
in  the  commercial  life  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Dick  makes 
his  home  at  Lake  Forest  and  is  a  member  of 
several  leading  clubs. 


G.  WATSON  FRENCH 


IT  was  in  1877  that  Mr.  French  engaged  as  a 
moulder  with  the  Eagle  Manufacturing  com- 
pany, of  Davenport,  Iowa,  and  so  satisfactorily  dis- 
charged his  duties  that  he  eventually  became  presi- 
dent of  the  company.  He  also  is  president  of  the 
Bettendorf  Metal  Wheel  company,  a  director  of 
the  Republic  Iron  and  Steel  company  and 
chairman  of  its  executive  committee.  He  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Annie  Laurie  Mining  company. 
He  was  born  in  Iowa  and  educated  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  In  club  life,  of  which 
he  is  fond,  he  is  a  member  of  the  Midlothian,  the 
Chicago,  the  Calumet  and  Mid-Day.  In  the  steel 
industry  he  has  won  an  enviable  success. 


ALFRED  STROMBERGU 


IN  electrical  work,  and  a  knowledge  of  the 
science  of  electricity,  Mr.  Stromberg  is  a  past 
master.  His  education  in  this  work  began  in 
Sweden,  extended  to  Norway  and  Denmark  and 
was  completed  in  the  United  States.  The  intrica- 
cies of  the  telephone  he  learned  through  L.  M. 
Ericsson,  a  noted  European  electrician,  and  this 
lead  him  into  an  intimate  connection  with  the  Bell 
Telephone  company,  of  this  country,  and  to 
eventually  making  himsslf  through  the  present 
Stromberg-Carlson  Telephone  company,  of  Chicago, 
a  manufacturer  of  telephones.  In  this  enterprise 
he  has  acquired  a  national  reputation,  being  rated 
as  one  of  the  first  telephone  construction  experts  of 
the  country.  In  preparing  technical  papers  on  the 
details  of  telephone  designing  he  has  won  the  front 
rank. 


HENRY  G.  FOREMAN^ 


MR.  FOREMAN'S  everlasting  fame  will  rest 
upon  his  determined  efforts  to  give  Chicago 
an  outer  belt  of  parks  and  a  complete  outdoor 
recreation  system.  While  he  has  won  fame  for 
himself  as  a  real  estate  operator  and  public  official, 
president  of  the  country  board  and  a  member  of 
the  South  Park  board,  his  real  fame  will  hinge 
upon  his  battle  for  the  Chicago  beautiful.  Mr. 
Foreman  was  born  in  Chicago  and  received  his 
education  here.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  Chicago  Stock  Exchange,  the  Chicago  Title  & 
Trust  company  and  the  Chicago  Real  Estate  board. 
A  man  of  wealth  and  superior  intelligence  with  his 
multifarious  private  affairs  he  always  has  sought 
to  give  much  of  himself  to  the  betterment  of  his 
native  city. 


JOHN  R.  MORRON 


MR.  MORRON  believes  in  Chicago,  and  before 
the  Merchants'  club  he  has  been  a  strong 
advocate  of  the  commercial  possibilities  of  the 
city.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  Diamond  Glue 
company  and  the  Diamond  Casein  company;  a 
director  of  the  National  Bank  of  the  Republic,  of 
the  Schwarzschild  C&  Sulzberger  Glue  company 
and  the  Audebert  Wall  Paper  company.  Despite 
his  many  business  activities,  Mr.  Morron  finds 
time  to  give  himself  to  the  duties  and  the  social 
life  of  the  Chicago,  Athletic,  Mid-Day,  Forty  and 
Midlothian  clubs,  and  to  take  a  conspicuous  part 
in  the  active  municipal  improvement  work  of  the 
Merchants'  club.  He  is  one  of  the  stanch  sup- 
porters of  the  shibboleth:  "Chicago  the  Central 
Market." 


LAWRENCE  A.  YOUNG  ^ 


MR.  YOUNG  hails  from  the  state  where  a  fine 
horse  not  only  grows  but  is  loved.  He  is  a 
Kentuckian  by  birth  and  when  he  removed  to  Chi- 
cago in  1896  he  brought  with  him  the  natural  blue 
grass  affection  for  a  thoroughbred.  He  is  a  graduate 
of  Princeton  University  and  of  the  Louisville  Law 
School  and  a  lawyer  by  profession.  During  Mayor 
Carter  Harrison  II's  first  term  he  was  assistant  cor- 
poration counsel  and  is  now  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  Chicago  City  railway  company.  As  president 
of  the  Washington  Park  club  and  the  inspiring 
genius  of  a  number  of  successful  American  Derbies 
he  always  has  held  a  prominent  position  in  the  life 
of  the  city.  He  also  is  president  of  the  Western 
Jockey  club. 


JOHN  T.  CONNERY   ^ 


MR.  CONNERY  is  one  of  the  many  examples 
of  successful  Chicago  business  men  who 
began  their  careers  at  the  bottom  round  of  the 
ladder  of  work.  Although  born  in  Rhode  Island 
he  received  his  education  in  the  Chicago  public 
schools  and  the  Chicago  Athenaeum  and  then 
became  a  yard  clerk  with  a  coal  firm.  Three  years 
later  he  was  cashier  and  book-keeper  for  the  Silver 
Creek  Coal  company  and  afterward  its  secretary. 
In  1904  he  was  chosen  president  of  the  Miami 
Coal  company,  an  office  he  still  retains.  As  a 
society  and  club  member  he  is  connected  with  the 
Royal  Arcanum,  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  the 
Catholic  Order  of  Foresters  and  the  Chicago 
Athletic  club. 


SAMUEL  Me  ROBERTS    ' 


IN  THE  long  and  steady  growth  of  the  Armour 
interests,  the  extension  of  the  affairs  of  the 
Armour  house  into  a  score  or  more  of  world -wide 
industries,  Mr.  McRoberts  has  acted  as  the  treas- 
urer of  the  corporation,  keeping  a  watchful  eye 
upon  its  finances  and  resources.  A  position  of 
this  character  in  a  house  employing  at  times  as 
many  as  30,000  men,  having  relations  with  every 
important  foreign  government  for  food  supplies,  is 
one  of  the  utmost  responsibility.  Mr.  McRoberts 
in  his  discharge  of  the  duties  entailed  upon  him 
for  years  has  won  the  highest  praise  not  only  from 
his  superiors  but  all  having  business  dealings  with 
the  Armour  house.  He  has  grown  into  Armour's. 


JOHN  W.  EMBREE 


ONE  of  Chicago's  greatest  industries,  a  com- 
mercial development,  which  wrested  laurels 
from  other  cities,  has  been  her  lumber  business. 
She  is  now  the  center  of  the  largest  mixed  lumber 
trade  in  the  world  and  one  of  the  important  char- 
acters in  bringing  this  about  has  been  Mr. 
Embree,  who  is  secretary  of  the  Rittenhouse  CS, 
Embree  Lumber  company.  He  has  given  wide 
study  to  the  lumber  trade  conditions  of  Chicago 
and  especially  to  her  future  sources  of  supply. 
The  gradually  disappearing  near-by  markets  of 
production  are  disappearing  while  the  demand  on 
Chicago  for  lumber,  local  and  foreign,  is  steadily 
increasing.  This  situation  presents  a  difficult 
problem  to  the  lumber  merchant,  but  one  which 
Mr.  Embree  appears  to  have  solved  in  a  remark- 
able manner. 


WILLIAM  A  BIRK 


/CHICAGO  born,  Mr.  Birk  has  given  his  entire 
^X  business  career  to  Chicago  enterprises  and 
the  exploitation  of  the  merits  of  the  city  itself.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  grain 
commission  business  on  the  Board  of  Trade  and 
after  that  was  a  member  of  the  brewing  firm  of 
Wacker  C&  Birk.  In  1891  he  organized  the  brew- 
ing firm  of  Birk  Brothers,  of  which  he  now  is  the 
president.  He  is  a  member  of  Lincoln  Park  lodge 
of  Masons,  a  director  of  the  Germania  Mannerchor 
and  an  active  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  and 
Iroquois  clubs.  He  has  given  his  name  and  its 
influence  to  many  public  enterprises  and  always 
has  been  identified  with  progressive  commercial 
and  municipal  movements. 


WILLIAM  WALLER 


IN  THE  real  estate  and  coal  business  Mr.  Waller 
has  won  a  high  reputation  in  Chicago's  busi- 
ness circles.  He  was  born  in  Kentucky  and 
became  a  resident  of  Chicago  when  he  was  three 
years  old.  On  graduating  from  Rensselaer  Poly- 
technic Institute  of  Troy,  New  York,  in  1879  he 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Waller  &  Co., 
real  estate  dealers.  He  also  is  president  of  the 
Waller  Coal  company,  a  director  of  the  Oliver 
Typewriter  company  and  of  the  Orangeine 
Chemical  company.  In  business  life  he  always 
has  kept  himself  closely  in  touch  with  affairs  of 
the  day  and  the  matters  which  pertained  to  build- 
ing Chicago  for  future  greatness.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  University,  Athletic,  Washington  Park, 
Saddle  and  Cycle,  Onwentsia,  Exmoor,  Glen  View 
and  Chicago  Golf  clubs. 


JOHN  M.  ROACH 


FROM  the  position  of  street  car  conductor 
to  president  and  manager  of  the  Chicago  Con- 
solidated Traction  company  has  been  the  busi- 
ness rise  of  Mr.  Roach.  He  entered  the  employ 
of  the  North  Chicago  Street  railway  company  in 
1872  and  became  assistant  superintendent  in  1887, 
superintendent  three  years  later  and  2nd  vice- 
president  and  general  manager  in  1893.  Since 
1897  he  has  been  vice-president  and  general  man- 
ager of  the  West  Chicago  Street  railway  company 
and  president  of  the  Cicero  C8>  Proviso  and  Subur- 
ban street  railway  companies  during  the  same 
time.  There  is  no  part  of  a  street  railway  system 
from  its  practical  operation  to  its  financiering  to 
which  Mr.  Roach  has  not  given  long  and  intelligent 
study. 


ANDREW  J.  GRAHAM 


IF  Mr.  Graham  no  longer  lived  on  the  'West  Side 
or  continued  his  banking  business  there  that 
section  of  the  city  would  hardly  seem  the  same. 
He  is  a  marked  entity  of  that  part  of  Chicago.  He 
was  born  in  this  city  and  at  fourteen  began  his 
business  career  as  a  boy  in  the  furniture  store  of 
John  M.  Smyth.  After  some  years  in  this  employ- 
ment he  established  with  his  father  the  present 
banking  house  of  Graham  £8,  Sons.  Gov.  Altgeld 
honored  him  in  1893  when  he  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  West  Park  board.  To  him  as  much 
as  to  any  one  else  has  been  due  the  rapid  develop- 
ment of  the  beauties  of  the  West  Park  system 
during  the  last  twelve  years. 


ROBERT  W.  HUNT 


CAPT.  HUNT  is  the  leading  metallurgical 
engineer  of  the  West.  His  life's  work  began 
in  a  rolling  mill  at  Potts ville,  Pa.,  in  a  practical 
way,  learning  puddling,  heating,  rolling  and  the 
other  technical  portions  of  the  molder's  business. 
Analytical  chemistry  received  his  attention  for  a 
number  of  years  and  in  fact  until  he  entered  the 
army  in  defense  of  the  Union.  He  served  from 
1861  to  1865  and  then  represented  the  Cambria 
Iron  Works  in  Michigan.  Since  1888  he  has  been 
the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Robert  W.  Hunt 
&  Co.,  consulting  engineers,  iron  inspectors,  etc., 
with  offices  in  Chicago,  New  York  and  London. 
Capt.  Hunt  has  written  many  papers  on  the 
metallurgy  and  manufacture  of  steel  and  is  a 
member  of  a  number  of  prominent  scientific 
societies. 


LOUIS  MOHR 


67l/fR  MOHR,  like  his  brother,  who  is  asso- 
Q^X  r  JL  ciated  with  him  in  business,  has  made 
a  life  study  of  the  mechanical  science  of  construct- 
ing boilers  and  those  mechanisms  which  go  with 
the  development  and  control  of  steam  in  industrial 
work.  The  Mohr  name  now  is  known  throughout 
the  nation  as  a  synonym  for  sterling  productions, 
this  being  largely  due  to  the  patience  and  skill  the 
father  and  the  sons  succeeding  him  have  put  to 
the  work  before  them.  The  Mohrs  have  created 
a  typical  Chicago  institution,  not  to  be  separated 
under  any  circumstances  from  any  graphic  history 
of  the  foundations  on  which  the  business  fame  of 
the  city  has  risen. 


JOSEPH  MOHR 


TV/TANUFACTURING  enterprises  have  marked 
A.YA  the  successful  business  career  of  Mr.  Mohr. 
He  was  born  in  Chicago  in  1855  and  educated  in 
the  public  schools,  from  which  so  many  notable 
men  have  come.  His  apprenticeship  in  work 
began  with  the  Excelsior  Iron  Works  in  1870  as  a 
boilermaker  and  he  was  foreman  of  his  own 
department  by  1877.  Resigning  in  1882  he  joined 
with  his  father  in  forming  the  boiler  manufacturing 
business  of  John  Mohr  and  Son  which  was 
incorporated  in  1892  as  John  Mohr  and  Sons.  Mr. 
Mohr  held  the  position  of  general  manager  and 
treasurer  until  1903  when,  upon  the  death  of  his 
father,  he  became  president  and  treasurer.  He  is 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  club 
and  of  the  Chicago  Engineers. 


W.  J.  CALHOUN 

FROM  labor  on  a  farm  to  arbiter  of  the  fate  of 
nations  this  is  the  epitome  of  the  career 
of  Mr.  Calhoun,  who  was  chosen  by  President 
Roosevelt  to  make  an  examination  of  the  condition 
of  affairs  in  Venezuela.  For  President  McKinley  he 
performed  a  similar  service  in  Cuba,  before  the  out- 
break of  the  Spanish-American  War.  At  the  same 
time  he  established  the  record  that  he  was  not  an 
office-seeker.  'When  he  became  an  Interstate 
Commerce  commissioner  in  1898  it  was  on  the 
direct  solicitation  of  the  president  himself  that  he 
accepted.  His  life  work  began  upon  an  Ohio  farm, 
but  he  began  the  study  of  law  at  the  same  time 
the  then  Major  McKinley  did.  Later,  he  served  in 
the  Union  forces  in  the  civil  war  and  ten  years  after 
the  war  ended  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Illinois 
at  Danville.  From  that  time  on  his  advance  was 
rapid.  After  two  years'  service  on  the  Interstate 
Commerce  commission  he  resumed  the  practice  of 
law  in  Chicago  with  Pam,  Calhoun  C&  Glennon. 


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HIRAM  R.  McCuLLOUGH 


AS  third  vice-president  of  the  Chicago  CS,  North- 
western railway  and  with  a  wide  railway 
experience  Mr.  McCullough  is  one  of  the  best 
known  traffic  managers  of  the  country.  His  early 
experiences  began  in  the  general  freight  offices  of 
the  Illinois  Central  company,  he  leaving  that  road 
to  connect  himself  with  the  the  Northwestern  in 
1882  and  rising  rapidly  on  the  official  staff  of  that 
corporation  year  by  year.  The  practical  side  of 
traffic  management  always  has  appealed  to  Mr. 
McCullough  and  he  has  made  it  a  life-long  study 
to  the  enhancement  of  his  own  fame  and  the 
reputation  of  the  system  he  serves.  His  home  in 
Lake  Forest  is  one  of  the  leading  social  circles  of 
the  beautiful  North  Shore. 


ISRAEL  P.  RUMSEY 


WHEN  President  Lincoln  called  for  troops 
in  1861  Mr.  Rumsey,  then  only  twenty- 
five  years  old  was  one  of  the  first  Chicagoans  to 
respond.  He  assisted  in  organizing  Taylor's 
Chicago  Battery,  and  became  junior  second  lieu- 
tenant of  Company  B.,  of  the  1st  Illinois  Light 
Artillery.  Before  the  war  ended  he  was  a  captain. 
Since  1864,  with  the  exception  of  two  years,  he  has 
been  in  the  grain  commission  line,  representing  one 
of  the  largest  receiving  houses  on  the  board.  In 
reform  politics  he  always  has  been  active,  espec- 
ially in  the  work  for  high  license  and  the 
suppression  of  the  sale  of  liquor  to  minors  and 
drunkards.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Presbyterian 
League  and  was  chairman  of  the  finance  committee 
that  raised  the  funds  for  building  the  Grace  and 
Sixth  Presbyterian  churches.  Socially  and  finan- 
cially he  holds  a  pre-eminent  position  in  Chicago. 


DARIUS  MILLER 


three  years  in  the  start  of  his  railway 
career  Mr.  Miller  was  a  stenographer  in  the 
general  freight  offices  of  the  Michigan  Central 
railway.  Then  he  started  on  the  gamut  of  rail- 
way work  that  leads  into  the  financing  and 
operating  of  great  transportation  properties.  He 
served  so  well  in  subordinate  positions  through 
the  West  and  South  that  by  1890  he  was  traffic 
manager  of  the  Queen  and  Crescent  route  and  in 
1896  vice-president  of  the  Missouri,  Kansas  C&, 
Texas  railway.  He  was  elected  to  the  first  vice- 
presidency  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  CS,  Quincy 
system  and  accepted  the  office  January  1,  1903. 
Mr.  Miller  is  one  of  the  most  popular  and  public- 
spirited  railway  officials  of  the  Northwest,  a  strong 
executive  and  close  in  touch  with  public  needs. 


FRANKLIN  H.  HEAD 


FAMOUS  Dr.  North,  of  Hamilton  college,  had 
much  to  do  with  the  early  education  of  Mr. 
Head.  The  latter  was  a  graduate  from  Hamilton 
in  1846  and  left  college  to  enter  on  a  manufactur- 
ing and  banking  business.  While  he  practiced  law 
in  Kenosha  as  early  as  1858  and  was  in  business 
on  the  cattle  ranches  of  Utah  for  more  than  four 
years,  his  natural  inclinations  to  greater  financial 
enterprises  brought  him  to  Chicago  where  he  has 
been  intimately  connected  with  the  Continental 
Casualty  company,  the  Fay-Sholes  company, 
Street's  Western  Stable  Car  line  and  other  enter- 
prises. He  is  honored  as  well  as  a  literateur 
through  his  works  on  "Shakespeare's  Insomnia  and 
the  Causes  Thereof,  "  "A  Notable  Lawsuit,"  etc. 
In  1901  he  received  the  decoration  of  a  Chevalier 
of  the  Legion  of  Honor  of  France. 


FREDERIC  W.  UPHAM 


THE  genial  president  of  Cook  county's  Board 
of  Review  has  led  an  active  business  life. 
Leaving  college  in  1880  he  connected  himself  with 
the  Upham  Manufacturing  company,  of  which  his 
uncle,  'William  H.  Upham,  afterward  governor  of 
Wisconsin,  was  president.  Removing  to  Chicago 
in  1894  he  organized  the  Fred  W.  Upham  Lumber 
company,  of  which  he  is  still  the  president.  He  is 
president  of  the  Busse-Reynolds  Coal  company 
and  the  Wisconsin  Oak  Lumber  company;  vice- 
president  of  the  Peabody  Coal  company  and  Paw- 
nee railway  company  and  director  in  a  number  of 
other  corporations.  In  politics  he  is  one  of  the 
leading  Republicans  of  the  city,  sitting  in  the 
national  Republican  convention  of  1892,  alderman 
from  the  twenty-second  ward  in  1898  and  now 
president  of  the  Board  of  Review  since  1899. 


WALTER  H.  WILSON 


MR.  WILSON  is  an  authority  on  Chicago  real 
estate  and  has  been  for  the  last  seventeen 
years.  He  •was  born  in  Massachusetts  and  fitted 
himself  for  Harvard  College  at  a  preparatory  public 
school  but  gave  up  his  studies  for  business  in  1873. 
He  entered  the  wholesale  crockery  and  glassware 
house  of  Abram  French  C&,  Co.,  Boston,  advancing 
from  a  minor  to  a  responsible  position  and  in  1879, 
when  the  firm  established  a  branch  house  in 
Chicago,  he  was  made  a  partner.  His  interest  was 
disposed  of  in  1888  when  he  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business  and  later  in  banking.  He  is  a 
governing  member  of  the  Art  Institute,  vice-pres- 
ident of  the  Western  Trust  CS,  Savings  Bank  and 
of  the  Chicago  Union  Traction  company.  He  has 
taken  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  developement  of 
the  purposes  of  the  Chicago  Commercial 
Association. 


HENRY  C.  LYTTON 

/^O-OPERATION  has  been  the  spirit  of  the 
^^  business  career  of  Mr.  Lytton.  He  mastered 
the  understanding  of  it  through  his  own  long 
experience  in  reaching  a  culmination  in  "  The  Hub." 
At  fourteen  he  graduated  from  the  public  schools 
of  New  York  into  the  College  of  New  York  and 
then  entered  business  life  as  an  entry  clerk  in  a 
wholesale  business  house.  Between  eighteen  and 
twenty-one  he  was  bookkeeper  for  a  retail  store. 
For  fifteen  years  afterward  he  was  a  merchant  in 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  leaving  that  field  to 
establish  the  corporation  of  which  he  is  now  the 
president.  Sympathetic  questions  of  the  relations 
of  employer  to  employe  and  of  a  business  man  to 
the  community  in  which  he  lives  have  always 
entered  into  Mr.  Lytton's  life.  Part  of  his  annual 
profits  as  a  merchant  he  divides  with  his  clerks. 
Part  of  his  daily  life  is  given  to  the  interests  of  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society  and  the  Art  Institute. 


NOBLE  B.  JUDAH 


OLD  VINCENNES  with  its  memories  of 
"Sweet  Alice"  and  the  many  important 
events  of  the  past  that  occurred  there  was  the 
birthplace  of  Mr.  Judah  and  he  left  it  to  complete 
his  education  at  the  Indiana  State  University  and 
Brown  University,  being  graduated  from  the  latter 
in  1872.  His  law  studies  were  prosecuted  in 
Chicago  and  in  the  law  department  of  the  University 
of  Michigan,  and  on  their  completion  he  entered 
on  the  active  practice  of  the  law  in  Chicago.  In 
the  city  council  he  served  the  city  with  great 
intelligence  for  a  number  of  years  and  in  legal 
circles  he  long  since  won  permanent  recognition  of 
his  abilities  as  a  master  of  jurisprudence. 


PAUL  BROWN 


T  TlSTORIC  McHenry  county  was  the  birth- 
JL  JL  place  of  Mr.  Brown,  a  son  of  Dr.  Henry  T. 
Brown,  a  noted  physician  of  the  early  Illinois 
days.  Mr.  Brown  was  educated  in  the  common 
and  high  schools  of  McHenry  county  and  began 
his  effective  study  of  the  law  in  Chicago  in  the 
office  of  Hoyne,  Horton  £&  Hoyne.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1885  and  a  few  months 
later  was  appointed  master  in  chancery  of  the 
Circuit  court  of  Cook  county,  an  office  which  he 
held  until  1893.  In  1889  he  joined  Clarence  A. 
Knight  in  the  firm  of  Knight  £&  Brown  and  since 
1903  has  been  one  of  the  firm  of  Horton  C&>  Brown. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  and 
Hamilton  clubs  and  has  his  residence  at  Glencoe. 


ORRIN  W.  POTTER 


MR.  POTTER  taught  himself  in  higher  math- 
ematics and  civil  engineering  in  his  boyhood 
life  in  New  York  State.  He  was  born  in  1836  and 
removed  to  Wyandotte,  Michigan,  in  1856,  where 
he  clerked  in  a  rolling  mill.  One  year  afterward 
he  was  connected  with  Ward's  rolling  mill  in 
Chicago  and  when  it  was  incorporated  in  1865  as 
the  Chicago  Rolling  Mill  company  he  became  its 
secretary  and  general  superintendent.  In  1871  the 
corporation  was  changed  to  the  North  Chicago 
Rolling  Mill  company,  of  which  Mr.  Potter  was 
the  president  for  over  twenty -five  years.  When 
it  was  consolidated  with  the  Illinois  Steel 
company  he  retired.  In  the  iron  and  steel  indust- 
rial development  of  Chicago  Mr.  Potter  was  one  of 
the  leaders. 


MASON  B.  STARRING 


HEREDITY  has  its  influence  in  determining 
the  careers  of  the  sons  of  men.  Mr.  Starring 
is  the  son  of  a  prominent  railway  man  of  the  early 
days  who  devised  the  American  system  of  checking 
baggage.  The  former  after  the  death  of  his  father 
perfected  the  system  and  then  turned  to  the  law 
as  his  chosen  profession.  Of  Illinois  birth  and  after 
being  admitted  to  the  bar  he  became  assistant 
general  counsel  under  Julius  S.  Grinnell,  then  of  the 
Chicago  City  Railway  Company.  Upon  the  death 
of  Mr.  Grinnell  he  became  general  solicitor  of  the 
company  and  in  1 904  was  made  general  manager 
of  the  corporation  which  controls  the  surface 
transportation  of  the  South  Side  of  Chicago.  From 
the  law  Mr.  Starring  has  by  force  of  environment 
passed  into  the  active  field  of  surface  transpor- 
tation electrical  and  cable — until  he  has  made 
himself  a  recognized  authority  on  the  subject 
throughout  the  nation. 


ALBERT  E.  ZIEHME 


ENGAGING  in  the  mercantile  business  when 
22  years  old,  at  Kensett,  Iowa,  Mr.  Ziehme  in 
1891,  became  a  traveling  salesman  for  a  wholesale 
jewelry  house  and,  coming  to  Chicago  in  1895, 
organized  the  jewelry  firm  of  A.  E.  Ziehme  £S>  Co. 
In  the  growth  of  his  affairs  and  his  intimate  con- 
nection with  the  financial  circles  of  Chicago  Mr. 
Ziehme  has  become  president  and  director  of  the 
Ravenswood  Exchange  bank,  a  director  of  the 
Western  Trust  <3&  Savings  Bank,  president  and 
director  of  the  Western  Telephone  Manufacturing 
company,  and  trustee  of  the  Ravenswood  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church  as  well  as  a  life  member 
of  the  Hamilton  club. 


HENRY  A.  BLAIR 


THE  father  of  Mr.  Blair  founded  the  Merchants 
National  Bank,  of  Chicago,  and  it  was  there  in 
1871  that  the  son  began  his  business  career.  He 
was  vice-president  until  1902  when  the  bank 
consolidated  with  the  Corn  Exchange  National 
bank.  He  is  a  receiver  and  director  of  the  North 
Chicago  Street  Railway  Company  and  of  the  West 
Chicago  Street  Railway  Company;  and  a  director 
of  the  Calumet  and  Chicago  Canal  and  Dock 
Company,  of  the  Elgin  National  Watch  Company, 
the  West  Division  Railway  Company  and  the 
Chicago  Edison  Company.  Mr.  Blair  has  given 
much  of  his  life  to  the  upbuilding  of  Chicago  and 
the  furtherance  of  civic  movements  that  would 
advance  the  government  of  the  municipality. 


JOHN  F.  STEVENS 

THE  Panama  canal  probably  will  be  the 
monument  which  perpetually  will  stand  to 
the  honor  of  Mr.  Stevens.  He  now  is  the  chief 
engineer  of  that  stupendous  work  and  was  selected 
by  President  Roosevelt  on  the  merit  of  his  past 
achievements.  Of  Maine  origin  his  entire  life  has 
been  given  to  railway  construction  work — the 
details  and  methods  of  building  for  endurance.  In 
his  progress  he  has  been  assistant  city  engineer  of 
Minneapolis,  chief  engineer  of  the  Sabine  Pass  C& 
Northwestern  railway  work,  an  engineer  with  the 
Denver  £&>  Rio  Grande  and  the  Milwaukee  system 
and  served  with  the  Canadian  Pacific,  the  Great 
Northern  and  the  Rock  Island  systems  until  he 
became  second  vice -president  of  the  latter  road.  In 
practical  building  work  he  ranks  with  the  first 
engineers  of  the  country  and  his  prompt  accept- 
ance of  the  Panama  canal  work  marks  his  ability 
to  complete  it. 


JOHN  A.  ROSE 

AS  A  lawyer  and  street  railway  official  Mr. 
Rose  has  won  a  wide  and  enviable  reputa- 
tion in  Chicago.  He  was  born  in  'Will  county  and 
was  graduated  from  Northwestern  University  in 
in  1882  with  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  Admitted  to 
the  Illinois  bar  in  1882,  he  began  his  practice  in 
Chicago  the  same  year.  In  1895  he  became  gen- 
eral attorney  for  the  North  Chicago  Street  railway 
company  and  the  West  Chicago  company.  In 
four  years  more  he  was  president  and  director  of 
the  Chicago  West  Division  railway  company,  the 
Chicago  Passenger  Railway  company,  the  West 
Chicago  Railway  Tunnel  company,  the  North 
Chicago  City  Railway  company,  and  director  of 
the  Chicago  Consolidated  Traction  company.  He 
is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  a  member  of 
Apollo  Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He  also 
is  a  prominent  Mystic  Shriner  and  a  member  of 
the  Union  League  club. 


RUDOLPH  ORTMANN 


MANUFACTURING  has  been  the  ambition 
of  Mr.  Ortmann  and  he  successfully  has 
prosecuted  work  along  that  line  for  twenty  years. 
He  was  born  in  Vienna  but  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Saginaw  and  Detroit,  completing  a 
thorough  course  in  the  Polytechnikum,  of  Vienna. 
He  afterward  entered  the  employ  of  the  Market 
bank  of  Detroit  as  a  messenger  and  in  1884  went 
to  Duluth  to  represent  large  timber  interests.  In 
1887  he  connected  himself  with  the  Ajax  Forge 
company  of  Chicago  and  is  now  vice-president  of 
the  concern.  He  also  is  first  vice-president  of  the 
Griffin  'Wheel  company,  a  director  of  the  American 
Trading  and  Storage  company  and  of  the  Sellers 
Manufacturing  company.  He  is  prominent  in  the 
life  of  the  clubs  of  Chicago,  Kansas  City,  St.  Paul 
and  Detroit. 


FRED  A  BUSSE 


FORMER  Treasurer  of  Illinois,  Mr.  Busse,  as  a 
Chicago  product,  has  steadily  risen  in  life. 
Engaged  in  the  hardware  business  with  his  father 
for  years  he  finally  opened  a  coal  establishment 
being  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Northwestern 
Coal  company  and  later  president  of  the  Busse- 
Reynolds  Coal  company  which  was  succeeded  by 
the  Busse  Coal  company,  of  which  he  is  the  head. 
Mr.  Busse  always  has  been  a  Republican  and  active 
in  politics.  He  has  been  town  clerk  of  North 
Chicago  one  term;  four  years  in  the  sheriff's  office 
and  after  that  chief  clerk  in  the  North  Town  collect- 
or's office.  He  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives in  the  thirty-ninth  and  fortieth 
General  Assemblies  and  in  1898  was  chosen  for 
the  state  Senate.  He  was  elected  state  treasurer 
in  1902.  He  is  a  member  of  the  state  Republican 
committee. 


CHARLES  H.  THORNE 


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1  his 


WILL,"  has  been  the  motto  of  Mr.  Thome  in 
i  career.  He  is  the  treasurer  and  director 
of  Montgomery  Ward  CS,  Co.,  and  one  of  the  great 
factors  in  the  direction  of  the  business  of  a  world- 
famous  mail  order  house.  Aside  from  his  deter- 
mination in  undertaking  any  project  Mr.  Thorne  is 
noted  for  his  advocacy  of  and  adherency  to  a 
system.  This  may  explain  why  his  firm,  through 
thoroughness  and  attention  to  the  most  minute 
details,  has  acquired  a  reputation  that  extends 
through  China  and  Japan,  into  every  agricultural 
section  of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  south  to 
the  Argentine  and  Chile,  east  into  all  divisions  of 
Europe.  Mr.  Thorne  has  a  winter  residence  at 
Thomasville,  Georgia. 


HOMER  H.  PETERS 


GRAIN  and  all  that  may  be  produced  from  it 
has  been  the  active  work  of  Mr.  Peters.  His 
business  career  was  begun  in  the  grain  office  of 
Alexander  Lewis  £&  Co.,  of  Detroit.  Later  he  was 
employed  by  Gilet  £&  Hall  of  the  same  city;  and  in 
1889  was  invited  by  Bartlett,  Frazier  <$,  Co.,  who 
were  just  opening  their  Chicago  offices,  to  join  with 
them,  which  he  did,  continuing  in  business  with 
that  firm  until  his  voluntary  retirement,  January 
1st,  1903.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  San  Diego,  California,  president 
of  the  Buffalo,  Dunkirk  £&,  Western  railway,  presi- 
dent of  the  Crescent  Oil,  Asphalt  fSt,  Gas  company 
and  a  director  of  the  San  Diego-Eastern  railway  and 
of  the  Pacific  Steel  company.  In  recreation  he  is 
extremely  fond  of  yachting  and  a  conspicuous 
member  of  the  Chicago  Yacht  and  the  San  Diego 
Yacht  and  Corinthian  Yacht  clubs  of  the  Pacific 
coast. 


JACOB  NEWMAN 


ALTHOUGH  Germany  was  his  birthplace 
Mr.  Newman  came  to  the  United  States 
with  his  parents  when  he  was  four  years  old  and 
began  life  on  an  Ohio  farm.  From  there  he 
removed  to  Noblesville,  Indiana,  having  in  mind 
that  he  would  some  day  be  a  lawyer  of  repute. 
After  working  at  various  callings  there  he  came  to 
Chicago  in  1867,  saving  his  money,  attending  the 
University  of  Chicago,  and  working  out  of  school 
hours.  Leaving  college  he  became  associated 
with  Judge  Graham  in  the  firm  of  Graham  CS, 
Newman,  a  partnership  which  continued  until 
Judge  Graham  removed  to  the  West.  He  after- 
ward was  for  eight  years  with  Adolph  Moses 
and  now  is  the  senior  of  Newman,  Northup, 
Levinson  £&  Becker.  He  is  an  active  member  of 
both  the  Union  League  and  the  Standard  clubs. 


HERMAN  PAEPCKE 


T  TERMAN  PAEPCKE  is  a  lumberman.  As 
A.  A.  a  member  of  the  Paepcke-Licht  Lumber 
company  he  has  brought  to  market  the  wood  of 
which  scores  of  mid-western  towns  are  built, 
His  saw  mills  are  at  work  in  half  a  dozen  southern 
states  and  the  employes  of  his  firm  are  numbered 
by  the  hundred.  For  his  recreation  Mr.  Paepcke 
draws  heavily  upon  the  golf  links  and  old  Colonel 
Bogie  never  fails  to  meet  the  drafts.  The  colonel 
thinks  that  lumbermen  are  pretty  good  people 
anyhow,  because  they  clear  so  much  ground  for 
future  putting  greens.  At  his  Glencoe  residence 
Mr.  Paepcke  spends  the  summer,  and  in  winter  he 
is  a  familiar  figure  at  the  Chicago  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation, the  Mid-day  and  the  Germania  clubs.  He 
lives  at  Pearson  Street  and  the  Lake  Shore  Drive. 


JOHN  FINDLEY  WALLACE 


MR.  WALLACE  is  one  of  the  foremost  civil 
engineers  of  the  world.  Connected  with  the 
Civil  Engineers  organization  of  Great  Britain  he 
is  also  past  president  of  the  American  Society  of 
Civil  Engineers,  of  the  American  Railway 
Engineering  and  Maintenance  of  Way  Association 
and  of  the  Western  Society  of  Civil  Engineers. 
His  practical  engineering  work  began  as  a  rodman 
on  the  line  of  the  Carthage  &  Quincy  railway. 
His  advancement  during  thirty  years  of  active 
work  was  rapid.  From  1901  to  1904  he  was 
general  manager  of  the  Illinois  Central  railway 
and  in  1904  was  appointed  chief  engineer  of  the 
Panama  Canal,  a  position  which  he  resigned  in 
1905  to  return  to  active  work  in  this  country.  In 
private  life  Mr.  Wallace  is  fond  of  golf  and  the 
recreations  of  outdoors. 


W.  A.  LYDON 


AS  A  contractor  and  a  master  of  dredges  Mr. 
Lydon  has  won  his  fame.  He  understands 
all  the  difficulties  and  dangers  in  scooping  out  the 
bed  of  a  river,  widening  a  stream,  creating  a 
harbor,  overcoming  a  sand  bank  or  blowing  up  a 
reef.  Of  the  Chicago  river  and  the  harbors  of 
Lake  Michigan  he  is  the  expert  master  in  keeping 
them  to  navigable  depths,  safe  for  all  kinds  of 
shipping.  His  firm  is  known  over  the  entire  Great 
Lakes  district  as  that  of  Lydon  £&,  Drews.  His 
monster  dredging  apparatuses  are  visible  where  - 
ever  a  channel  is  to  be  created.  All  of  the 
important  work  required  by  the  United  States 
government  to  bring  the  Chicago  river  to  its  legal 
navigable  depth  has  been  performed  under  the 
direction  of  Mr.  Lydon. 


A.  B.  SCULLY 


THE  Scully  family  has  been  of  noted  reputation 
in  Chicago  for  two  or  more  decades  as 
workers  in  steel  and  iron — the  product  of  the 
Scully  Steel  and  Iron  company,  of  which  Mr. 
Scully  is  the  chief.  The  mysteries  of  metallurgy 
always  have  attracted  Mr.  Scully,  and  as  he  has 
solved  them  he  has  given  the  benefit  of  his  dis- 
coveries to  the  world.  He  always  has  shown  a 
scientific  interest  in  the  relative  values  of  tensile 
strengths  and  the  application  of  these  to  mechan- 
ical forms  to  be  used  in  commercial  and  manufac- 
turing plants.  His  occupation,  to  Mr.  Scully,  is 
not  only  a  profit-making  work  but  one  in  which 
the  ancient  methods  of  Tubal  Cain  still  may  be 
profitably  followed  the  knowing  the  wherefore 
and  whyfore  of  the  molding  and  shaping  of  iron 
and  steel. 


FRANCIS  J.  DEWES 


THE  father  of  Mr.  Dewes  was  a  member  of 
the  first  German  Parliament  held  at  Frank- 
fort in  1848.  He  himself  graduated  from  Real- 
schule,  Cologne,  in  1861.  In  1868  he  came  direct 
from  Germany  to  Chicago  and  was  immediately 
employed  by  the  Rehm  &  Bartholomae  company 
as  a  bookkeeper.  He  was  so  capable  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  duties  that  he  became  a  stockholder 
within  two  years  and  nine  years  later  was  able  to 
establish  the  F.  J.  Dewes  Brewery  company,  now 
the  Standard  Brewery  company,  of  which  he  is 
president.  His  interest  in  the  developement  of 
Chicago's  artistic  attractions  was  manifested 
through  his  gift  of  the  statue  of  Alexander  Von 
Humboldt  to  Humboldt  Park.  In  the  affairs  of  the 
German-American  citizens  of  Chicago  and  the 
•welfare  of  newcomers  from  the  Fatherland  he  has 
always  been  conspicuous. 


MARSHALL  E.  SAMPSELL 


MR.  SAMPSELL  was  appointed  clerk  of  the 
Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the 
Northern  District  of  Illinois  in  1902  and  still  holds 
that  important  office.  He  also  is  one  of  the  re- 
ceivers of  the  Chicago  Union  Traction  company 
and  of  the  North  and  West  Chicago  Street  railway 
companies.  He  was  born  in  Texas  in  1874  and 
educated  in  the  University  of  Chicago  and  the 
Chicago  College  of  Law,  graduating  from  the  latter 
with  the  degree  of  LL.,  B.  Traction  questions  have 
interested  him  for  a  number  of  years  past  and  he 
has  given  their  solution  long  and  valuable  study. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  a  member  of  the 
Union  League,  Hamilton,  Washington  Park  and 
Exmoor  clubs,  having  his  residence  in  Highland 
Park. 


ALBERT  G.  WHEELER 


THE  produce  transportation  business  in  New 
York  City  gave  Mr.  Wheeler  his  first  inspira- 
tion on  the  proper  disposal  of  surface  freight  in  the 
great  cities.  Leaving  this  work  he  became 
interested  in  the  construction  of  new  telegraph 
lines,  building  railways  and  development  of  new 
enterprises  including  the  underground  electric  trac- 
tion systems  of  Washington  and  New  York,  the 
introduction  of  automatic  switchboards  for  tele- 
phone service  and  the  building  of  the  tunnels  under 
the  streets  of  Chicago  to  be  used  as  a  transfer  system 
for  freight  and  as  a  terminal  for  steam  railroads. 
He  is  president  and  director  of  the  Illinois  Tunnel 
company,  the  Illinois  Telephone  and  Telegraph 
company,  the  Illinois  Telephone  Construction  com- 
pany, and  a  director  of  the  Automatic  Electric 
company,  and  interested  in  many  other  corpora- 
tions. 


WILLIAM  GRACE 


MR.  GRACE  has  scattered  monuments  to  his 
reputation  all  over  Chicago.  Huge  piles 
like  the  Lake  Shore  station  and  other  structures 
rise  on  every  hand  to  bear  testimony  to  his  ability 
as  a  builder.  Since  early  life  Mr.  Grace  has  been 
engaged  in  contracting  construction  work  on  the 
motto  "That  a  thing  to  be  done  at  all  must  be 
well  done."  Thoroughness  has  marked  all  the 
great  enterprises  he  has  undertaken.  Foundation 
•work,  one  of  the  most  difficult  problems  a  Chicago 
builder  confronts,  is  sanely  understood  by  him, 
and  once  he  has  laid  his  base,  the  superstructure 
follows  harmonious  with  the  whole.  He  is 
acknowledged  throughout  the  West  to  be  one 
of  the  ablest  and  most  modern  contractors  in 
the  field. 


GEORGE  W.  JACKSON 

BORING  tunnels,  conquering  the  interior  of  the 
earth  and  making  it  useful  to  man,  has  been 
the  life  work  of  Mr.  Jackson.  He  is  ranked  to-day 
as  one  of  the  first  subway  engineers  in  the  United 
States.  Educated  in  Chicago  and  Oxford,  England, 
his  engineering  and  contracting  work  began  in 
1882.  He  bored  the  Strickler  Tunnel  through 
Pike's  Peak;  gave  Reading,  Pa.,  its  subway;  built 
the  pneumatic  tube  system  for  the  Associated 
Press  in  Chicago;  established  the  Wentworth 
avenue  drainage  system  and  built  about  90  per 
cent  of  the  underground  system  in  this  city  of  the 
Chicago  Telephone  company,  Postal  Telegraph 
company  and  Western  Union  company.  He  has 
been  the  engineer  and  contractor  for  the  entire 
subway  system  of  the  Illinois  Telephone  company 
and  consulting  engineer  for  Chicago's  local  trans- 
portation committee  in  its  study  of  the  traction 
problem  and  high  pressure  system. 


FRANK  J.  LOESCH 


RAILWAY,  telegraph  and  corporation  law  have 
been  made  special  studies  in  the  legal  life  of 
Mr.  Loesch.  He  is  now  counsel  at  Chicago  for  the 
Pennsylvania  lines  west  of  Pittsburg;  general  coun- 
sel for  the  Western  Division  of  the  same  system; 
and  counsel  for  the  Postal  Telegraph-Cable  comp- 
any. Mr.  Loesch  was  born  in  New  York  and 
graduated  in  law  from  Union  College  of  Law  with 
the  degree  of  LL.,  B.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  bar  in  1874.  He  is  the  senior  member  of 
the  law  firm  of  Loesch  Bros.  35,  Howell.  In  1898 
he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  city's  board  of 
education  and  re-appointed  for  a  second  term  after 
having  given  splendid  service  in  support  of  the 
public  school  system.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Illinois  and  the  Chicago  bar  associations. 


GEORGE  R.  PECK 


MAKING  his  own  life  busy  and  radiating  the 
sunshine  of  good  humor  has  been  the  career 
of  Mr.  Peck.  His  middle  name  is  "  Record  "  and  he 
has  been  making  it  good  since  his  birth  in  New 
York  in  1843.  He  is  twice  an  LL.D.,  once  an  A.M. 
and  a  past  master  of  wit  and  natural  oratory.  In 
the  civil  war  he  began  as  a  private  and  rose  to  a 
captaincy.  He  practiced  law  in  Wisconsin  and 
became  United  States  attorney  general  for  the  dis- 
trict of  Kansas.  He  was  general  solicitor  for  the 
Santa  Fe  system,  refused  to  become  a  United  States 
senator  for  Kansas  to  fill  an  unexpired  term,  came 
to  Chicago  in  1893  and  for  ten  years  has  been  the 
general  counsel  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  £&,  St. 
Paul  Railway.  As  a  raconteur  and  after-dinner 
speaker  he  has  few  equals  in  the  country.  As  a 
friend  he  is  unrivaled. 


JAMES  FRANCIS  MEAGHER 


WHEN  George  C.  Campbell  was  general 
solicitor  for  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  C&, 
Pacific  railway  Mr.  Meagher  entered  his  service 
as  an  office  boy  and  advanced  from  that  position  to 
be  stenographer  for  the  law  firm  of  Lawrence, 
Winston,  Campbell  C&  Lawrence.  Through  his 
early  years  and  while  engaged  in  the  most  laborious 
work  he  gave  his  spare  hours  to  study  of  the  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1881.  Five  years 
later  with  Frederick  S.  Winston  he  organized  the 
firm  of  Winston  £&,  Meagher,  which  later  became 
Sears,  Meagher  £&,  Whitney.  Mr.  Meagher  was 
born  in  Brooklyn  but  received  his  education  in 
Chicago.  He  is  conspicuous  in  the  circles  of 
eminent  corporation  lawyers. 


JAMES  B.  MCMAHON 


AS  VICE-PRESIDENT  of  the  N.  K.  Fairbank 
company  and  director  of  the  American 
Cotton  Oil  company,  Mr.  McMahon  has  won 
enviable  success  in  the  business  world.  Retiring 
in  disposition  but  genial  in  nature,  he  has  given  the 
best  of  his  life  to  the  building  up  and  extension  in 
influence  of  the  vast  businesss  interests  intrusted 
to  his  care.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago,  the 
Calumet,  the  Washington  Park  and  Chicago 
Athletic  clubs,  but  devotes  the  greater  part  of  his 
time  to  the  financial  affairs  in  his  controL  During 
his  life  in  Chicago  Mr.  McMahon  has  done  much 
toward  furthering  the  commercial  development  of 
its  manufacturing  interests. 


JULIUS  W.  BUTLER 


T\ /TR.  BUTLER'S  career  as  a  paper  merchant 
•LV.L  has  been  one  of  the  most  interesting  of  any 
of  Chicago's  leading  men.  When  he  was  13  years 
old  and  living  in  Vermont  he  was  apprenticed  to  a 
harness  and  trunk  maker  at  Hinesburg,  to  remain 
until  his  majority,  at  a  remuneration  of  $30  a  year 
and  three  months'  schooling  each  year.  At  18  he 
had  become  expert  at  his  trade  and  made  a  set  of 
carriage  harness  and  trunk,  both  of  which  took  first 
prize  at  the  state  fair.  At  20  in  consideration  of 
exceptional  services  he  was  given  a  year  of  his 
time  and  came  to  Illinois,  entering  the  employ  of  his 
brother  who  had  a  paper  mill  at  St.  Charles.  He 
established  a  paper  warehouse  in  Chicago  about 
1855  and  incorporated  the  J.  W.  Butler  Paper 
company  in  1872.  He  is  president  of  this  company 
and  also  president  of  the  Standard  Paper  company, 
of  Milwaukee.  Mr.  Butler  was  born  in  1828. 


WILLIAM  B.  BIDDLE 


FROM  the  position  of  brakeman  to  the  impor- 
tant duties  of  third  vice-president  of  a  great 
railway  corporation  has  been  the  life  advance  of 
Mr.  Biddle.  He  is  one  of  the  sons  of  the  Middle 
West  who  has  made  good  wherever  he  was  put. 
Born  in  Wisconsin  he  began  work  in  the  least 
important  position  a  train  operator  can  hold, 
advancing  to  a  station  master's  title  and  then  to 
the  office  of  assistant  freight  agent  with  the 
Santa  Fe  system.  In  the  end  he  became  freight 
traffic  manager  to  be  promoted  eventually  to  the 
Rock  Island  system,  •where  he  still  is  prominently 
identified.  He  is  ranked  as  one  of  the  most 
practical  traffic  managers  in  the  West  and  an 
authority  on  all  freight  movements. 


WILLIAM  J.  BRYSON 


CIVIL  engineering  attracted  Mr.  Bryson  from 
his  earliest  days  and  until  1900  when  he  retired 
from  the  service  of  the  Chicago  £8>  Alton  railway  as 
assistant  engineer  he  gave  it  the  best  of  himself. 
He  began  the  practice  of  civil  engineering  in  1865 
in  the  employ  of  the  United  States  government  on 
fortification  work  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  in 
1867  was  engaged  on  municipal  work  for  the  city 
of  Chicago.  When  this  was  completed  he  was  for 
seven  years  again  with  the  government  on  work  in 
Chicago,  Appleton,  Wis.,  and  Oshkosh.  He  then 
was  appointed  assistant  engineer  of  the  Alton 
system.  He  is  a  director  of  James  B.  Clow  &  Sons 
and  of  the  Joliet  CBt,  Chicago  railway  company. 


JOHN  V.  CLARKE 


LIKE  most  of  the  prominent  bankers  of  Chicago, 
Mr.  Clark  started  his  financial  education  at 
the  bottom.  Chicago-born  and  educated  at  St. 
Ignatius  college  he  entered  the  Hibernian  bank  in 
1880  as  a  messenger  and  for  fidelity  to  duty  was 
promoted  step  by  step  until  on  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1892  he  became  president  of  the  insti- 
tution. His  metal  was  tried  when  he  successfully 
carried  the  bank  through  the  panic  of  1893-95 
bringing  it  to  new  financial  strength  and  promi- 
nence. His  father,  John  V.  Clark,  was  the  founder 
in  1867  of  the  Merchants  Association  which  two 
years  later  became  the  Hibernian  Banking  Asso- 
ciation. In  social  circles  of  the  North  Side,  where 
he  resides,  Mr.  Clark  is  one  of  the  leading  factors. 


FRANK  BAACKES 


MR.  BAACKES  is  the  general  sales  agent  of 
the  American  Steel  and  Wire  company. 
He  was  born  in  Germany  and  spent  a  year  in  the 
works  of  the  wire  nail  mills  at  Oberbilk-Dusseldorf 
before  coming  to  Cleveland,  where  he  joined  his 
brother  at  the  H.  P.  Nail  Co.'s  works.  He  was 
superintendent  of  this  plant  by  1881.  His  exten- 
sive experiments  led  him  to  the  invention  of  what 
is  now  known  as  the  Standard  Wire  nail,  which 
has  grown  rapidly  in  popular  favor.  After  his 
organization  of  the  Salem  Wire  Nail  company  it 
was  absorbed  by  the  American  Steel  and  Wire 
company  and  he  became  the  general  sales  agent, 
a  director  and  vice-president  of  the  latter.  He 
has  a  delightful  summer  home  at  Baackes  Lodge, 
Lake  Content,  Eagle  river,  Wisconsin. 


E.  H.  PETERS 


WHEN  E.  H.  Peters,  of  Peters,  Fetzer  C& 
Co.  is  not  engaged  with  any  of  his  num- 
erous real  estate  and  other  business  affairs  he 
never  is  at  loss  to  find  a  place  to  put  in  a  few  hours 
of  rest  down  town.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Athletic  Association,  the  new  Illinois 
Athletic  Club,  the  Chicago  Yacht  Club  and  the 
Hamilton  club.  Near  his  home  at  Jackson  bou- 
levard and  Central  Park  avenue  there  is  the 
Illinois  Club  of  which  he  also  is  a  member.  In  the 
rear  of  Mr.  Peters'  residence,  overlooking  Garfield 
Park,  is  an  ample  stable  and  there,  if  he  has  a 
fad,  it  may  be  found  in  his  horses.  While  Mr. 
Peters  was  raised  in  New  York  and  has  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  Chicago  he  has  a  breadth 
of  shoulder  and  strength  of  arm  that  any  country- 
man might  be  proud  of. 


GILBERT  B.  SHAW 


FOR  Mr.  Shaw  the  tall  pines  and  the  hard 
maples  have  always  called.  Although  much 
of  his  life  has  been  given  to  financiering  his  earliest 
and  best  memories  are  of  the  days  when  his  •work 
lay  with  the  great  lumber  rafts  of  the  Mississippi. 
It  was  shortly  before  the  Chicago  fire  that  he  came 
to  this  city  and  became  a  book-keeper  and  later 
engaged  in  the  lumber  business  in  Kankakee.  This 
developed  into  a  retail  lumber  business  in  Kansas 
that  eventually  controlled  sixty  yards.  In  1878 
the  G.  B.  Shaw  Lumber  Company  owned  seventy- 
five  retail  yards.  During  his  career  Mr.  Shaw  has 
been  vice-president  of  the  Metropolitan  National 
Bank  and  president  of  the  American  Trust  and 
Savings  Bank.  He  is  still  a  director  in  both 
institutions  and  vice-president  of  the  E.  E.  Naugle 
Tie  Company. 


ALBERT  J.  HOPKINS 


TX7HERE  the  Fox  river  flows  by  Aurora 
V  V  United  States  Senator  Hopkins  has  made 
his  home  and  his  successful  legal  and  political 
career  for  thirty-five  years.  Although  born  in 
De  Kalb  county,  his  public  career  has  been  insep- 
arable from  that  of  Kane  county,  where  he  first 
became  a  state's  attorney  in  1872.  Identifying 
himself  strongly  with  the  Republican  party  he 
became  a  presidential  elector  in  1884  and  a  mem- 
ber of  congress  from  1885  until  his  election  to  the 
national  senate.  In  the  successful  practice  of  the 
law  and  in  national  affairs  at  Washington  he 
always  has  been  recognized  as  a  conservative. 
He  was  born  in  1846,  and  since  the  beginning  of 
his  public  career  has  been  recognized  as  one  of 
the  strongest  state  characters  in  furthering  the 
material  and  governmental  development  of  Illinois. 


GEORGE  HOOPER  TAYLOR 


GEORGE  HOOPER  TAYLOR,  who  for 
twenty  years  has  been  associated  with  the 
banking  and  bond  house  of  E.  H.  Rollins  £8,  Sons, 
is  an  enthusiastic  automobilist.  He  is  a  native  ot 
Maine,  having  been  born  at  South  Norridgewick. 
His  early  business  career  was  in  the  direction  of 
railroad  construction.  He  had  charge  of  the 
construction  of  some  of  the  more  important 
bridges  on  the  line  of  the  New  York  Central  rail- 
road and  later  was  one  of  the  contractors  who 
built  the  Colorado  Midland  road.  He  is  vice- 
president  of  E.  H.  Rollins  &.  Sons  and  general 
manager  of  the  Chicago  office.  It  has  been  his 
custom  for  years  to  spend  his  winters  in  California. 


THEODORE  OEHNE 


MR.  OEHNE  is  vice-president  of  the  Conrad 
Seipp  Brewing  company.  In  his  long 
business  career  in  Chicago  he  has  concerned  him- 
self largely  with  the  welfare  and  the  social  and 
personal  development  of  the  German-American 
population  of  the  city.  Liberal  in  views,  a  per- 
sistent student  of  the  financial  conditions  of  the 
city,  interested  in  all  progressive  movements  that 
might  extend  the  sphere  of  influence  of  the  munici- 
pality, Mr.  Oehne  has  brought  to  himself  the 
sincere  respect  and  admiration  of  all  who  have 
known  him.  High  political  honors  frequently 
have  been  offered  him,  but  he  has  preferred  the 
security  and  comfort  of  private  and  business  life. 


HENRY  M.  BYLLESBY 


IN  the  early  days  of  the  electric  lighting  of  New 
Jersey,  Mr.  Byllesby  was  associated  with 
Thomas  A.  Edison  and  has  been  identified  with 
many  movements  and  advances  in  electrical 
enterprises.  Receiving  his  early  education 
at  Lehigh  University,  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  he  has 
given  all  his  after  years  to  the  science  of  electrical 
engineering.  He  now  is  president  of  the  Mans- 
field, Ohio,  Light  and  Power  company,  the  Mans- 
field and  Shirley  railway  company  and  Granite  City 
Electric  company,  vice-president  of  the  Zanesville 
Railway  Light  and  Power  company,  Fort  Smith, 
Arkansas,  Traction  and  Light  company,  Oklahoma 
Gas  and  Electric  company,  and  president  of  H.  M. 
Byllesby  £$,  Co.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers  and  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Mechanical  Engineers. 


JESSE  A.  BALDWIN 


THE  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  (1877), 
Mr.  Baldwin  became  assistant  United  States 
attorney  and  held  that  office  seven  years,  resigning 
to  enter  private  practice.  He  never  has  sought  po- 
litical honors  but  when  the  nomination,  unasked, 
came  to  him  from  the  Republican  party  in  1903  for 
Circuit  Court  judge  of  Cook  County  he  came  with- 
in 298  votes  of  election,  a  total  vote  of  nearly  260, 
000  having  been  cast.  He  is  a  foremost  citizen  of 
Oak  Park,  having  been  town  attorney,  president  of 
the  board  of  education  and  trustee  of  the  Library 
Institute.  He  also  is  trustee  of  the  University  of 
Chicago,  Rush  Medical  College,  member  of  the 
American  Bar  Association,  the  Illinois  State  Bar 
Association  and  the  Chicago  Patent  Law  Associ- 
ation. In  clubs  he  associates  with  the  Union 
League,  Hamilton,  City  and  Chicago. 


JOHN  F.  SMULSKI 


MR  SMULSKI'S  ambitions  always  have 
vibrated  between  use  of  the  pen  as  an 
editor  and  study  of  the  statutes  as  a  lawyer.  His 
final  choice  has  been  the  law,  but  he  still  looks  back 
with  pleasure  to  the  days  when  editorial  rooms  held 
him.  He  was  born  in  Poland  and  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Germany  and  the  United  States.  After 
his  education  was  completed  he  engaged 
for  five  years  in  the  newspaper  and  publishing 
business  with  his  father  who  established  in 
1869  the  first  Polish  newspaper  in  the  United  States. 
He  has  been  three  times  an  alderman  and  twice 
city  attorney  by  popular  vote.  In  American  as 
well  as  local  Polish  circles  he  is  extremely  popular 
and  highly  respected. 


ALVIN  C.  McCoRD 


"PRINCETON  University  is  the  Alma  Mater  of 
-t^  Mr.  McCord  and  after  he  left  her  famous  halls 
he  took  a  year's  course  in  law  at  the  University  of 
Minnesota.  When  free  from  study  he  entered 
upon  the  manufacturing  business  as  vice-president 
of  the  Drexel  Supply  Company,  railway  supplies, 
and  eventually  became  president  and  a  director  of 
the  company.  He  also  is  president  and  a  director 
of  McCord  C8,  Co.,  and  president  of  the  Western 
Steel  Car  C&  Foundry  Company.  To  his  business 
activity  and  ingenuity  the  railway  companies  of  the 
country  owe  much.  Socially  his  interests  lie  with 
the  Chicago,  University,  Union  League  and  Glen 
View  Clubs,  of  Chicago,  and  the  Princeton,  of 
New  York. 


WILLIAM  H.  DAMSELL 


IN  1864  Mr.  Damsell  became  a  messenger  for 
the  Adams  Express  company  and  five  years 
later  was  a  route  agent.  Twenty-six  years  after 
that  he  became  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers 
of  the  company  and  in  1903  vice-president.  Before 
his  entering  on  express  work  Mr.  Damsell  served 
in  the  civil  war  with  the  Third  Ohio  regiment  but 
aside  from  this  the  last  forty  years  of  his  life  have 
been  given  to  the  practical  study  of  the  express 
business.  He  has  made  himself  a  master  of  the 
transportation  science  and  is  so  recognized  East 
and  West.  When  he  forgets  business  Mr.  Damsell 
gives  his  time  to  his  charming  home  circle  on  the 
Sheridan  Road,  Evanston. 


DANIEL  WILLARD 

MR.  WILLARD  has  been  one  of  the  railway 
builders  of  the  nation.  Now  second  vice- 
president  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  £8.  Quincy 
company,  he  entered  railway  life  in  1879  in  the 
track  department  of  the  Central  Vermont  railway, 
and  the  same  year  was  employed  by  the  Passump- 
sic  railway  as  a  locomotive  fireman.  He  remained 
with  that  company  four  years  as  fireman  and 
engineer,  leaving  to  become  a  locomotive  engineer 
with  the  Lake  Shore  system.  On  the  Minneapolis 
CS,  Sault  Ste.  Marie  system  he  served  fourteen 
years  as  conductor,  engineer,  trainmaster  and 
superintendent,  leaving  that  company  in  1899  to 
become  assistant  general  superintendent  of  the 
Baltimore  £&,  Ohio  company.  A  year  after  he  was 
assistant  to  the  president  of  the  Erie  railroad,  then 
third  vice-president,  first  vice-president  and  gener- 
al manager,  positions  which  he  resigned  to  take  his 
present  high  office. 


